Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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Maurice Chevalier


Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Bertrand Russell


There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.

Josiah Quincy


When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

George Eliot


Wear a smile and have friends,
wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Oscar Wilde


To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

John Donne


Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

Euripides


The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

William Makepeace Thackeray


Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:36:38 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.17 March 14 Marchdifference New York Dow Jones 11,866.7511,951.09(-84.34) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,169.37 2,212.49(-43.12) TokyoNikkei11,787.5112,241.60(- 454.09) ...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:36:28 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,182.30 (- 269.60) MDAX8,193.00 (- 470.61) Adidas 38.75 (-1.83) Allianz 106.20 (-5.41) BAS...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:45:00 GMT
ninemsn - SHANGHAI, March 18 (Reuters) - Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco is considering five or six overseas projects and it "would welcome foreign partnerships", its president, Xiao Yaqing ...

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Cesare Pavese


Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

Will Rogers


Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings


It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

Les Brown


A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party

Gertrude Stein


Money is always there, but the pockets change.

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Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:19:00 GMT
ninemsn - SINGAPORE, March 18 (Reuters) - Indonesia's state oil company PT Pertamina will import a higher-than-expected 12.17 million barrels of oil products in April, up 4.2 percent from ...

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:19:00 GMT
ninemsn - SHANGHAI, March 18 (Reuters) - Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco, which this year led a $14 billion investment in Rio Tinto , is more likely to raise its stake than reduce ...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:38:00 GMT
ninemsn - SINGAPORE, March 18 (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on Tuesday but was over 5 percent off record peaks a day ago, as investment funds capped their exposure to commodities in the face of ...

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:46:56 GMT
"Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place.'' -- The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans, calling for an international investigation into China's crackdown on demonstrators in Lhasa.

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Rig Veda


Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.

Ellen Goodman


In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Robertson Davies


Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998


Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Bill Cosby


People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter


A scholar knows no boredom.

Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934


The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Cicero


To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park


Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Gaius Julius Caesar


The die is cast.

Brad Bell


True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Henry David Thoreau


The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

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Stock & fund quotes

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:19:00 GMT
ninemsn - US stocks were mostly lower as investors tried to form a view on the long-term health of financial markets and the broader economy. Traders' terminals were buzzing with news of the ...

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:46:26 GMT
"We will stand in between the kangaroo and the darts if necessary.'' -- Pat O'Brien, protesting the Australian government's plans to slaughter 400 kangaroos blamed for ruining the habitat of rare lizards and insects.

The Krugman Factor (Washington Post)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:15:09 GMT
You might expect Barack Obama, as one of the more liberal candidates in the race, to be feeling the love from the left-wing blogosphere, where Hillary Clinton is not exactly a favorite.

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Tacitus


It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.

Unknown


Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Benjamin Franklin


In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Buddha


Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr� De H�resibus. (1597)


Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)

Voltaire


I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Recent Bush quotes on economy (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:20:45 GMT
Recent comments by President Bush on the economy:

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:38:53 GMT
"We will stand in between the kangaroo and the darts if necessary.'' -- Pat O'Brien, protesting the Australian government's plans to slaughter 400 kangaroos blamed for ruining the habitat of rare lizards and insects.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:46:19 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.17 March 14 Marchdifference New York Dow Jones 11,866.7511,951.09(-84.34) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,169.37 2,212.49(-43.12) TokyoNikkei11,787.5112,241.60(- 454.09) ...

The Krugman Factor (Washington Post)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:23:43 GMT
You might expect Barack Obama, as one of the more liberal candidates in the race, to be feeling the love from the left-wing blogosphere, where Hillary Clinton is not exactly a favorite.

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Marilyn Monroe


A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

David Pratt


Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"


Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown


One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

King Whitney Jr.


Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense


If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

F. M. Young


It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

Bill Hoest


I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2


If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.

Erich Fromm


Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Carl Sandburg


One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

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FACTBOX - Main quotes from Dalai Lama (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:27:00 GMT
(Reuters) - The following are key quotes given by the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, on Sunday at a news conference.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Michelangelo Buonarroti


I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Mark Twain


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I remember we were all horrified to see Grandpa up on the roof with his Superman cape on. 'Get down' yelled Uncle Lou. 'Don't move' screamed Grandma. But Grandpa wouldn't listen. He walked to the edge of the roof and stuck out his arms, like he was going to fly. I forget what happened after that.

Dutch Proverb


He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.

George Bernard Shaw


Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

John Milton, Paradise Lost


Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

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SCO n'est désormais plus listé au NASDAQ

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:20:00 GMT
PC INpact - ... il y a deux mois pour la possession de la propriété intellectuelle d’Unix, la firme vient de sortir du NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ...

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Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:30:00 GMT
Arouts 7 - Rappelons que le NASDAQ, sigle de National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, est le deuxième plus important, en volume traité, marché d'actions des États ...

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