Wednesday, March 19, 2008

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Andrew Carnegie


All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Author Unknown


Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Cicero


There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Thomas B. Reed


A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Erma Bombeck


If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Oscar Wilde


The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:54:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on Tuesday after a slide from record peaks a day ago as investment funds capped exposure to commodities in the face of crumbling global ...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:46:00 GMT
ninemsn - The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears likely to raise official interest rates again in coming months, after the minutes of its March board meeting suggested further ...

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George Moore


A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II


Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.

Barbara Mikkelson


Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

Carl Sandburg


When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Unknown


Where you find true friendship, You find true love.

Brendan Behan, Hostage (1958)


He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

Denis Watley


The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Margaret Mead


Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Mike Godwin


I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet'

Candice Bergen


I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:50:00 GMT
ninemsn - A $400 million conversion program at OneSteel's Whyalla steelworks should extend the life of the operations to 2027, South Australian Deputy Premier Kevin Foley says. In Whyalla to ...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:46:00 GMT
ninemsn - The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears likely to raise official interest rates again in coming months, after the minutes of its March board meeting suggested further ...

Reading Films

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:01:00 GMT
Egypt Today - From Hollywood Lesbians and Off Screen/On Screen to The Dictionary of Film Quotations, whole libraries have been published, all in the name of cashing in on anything that is even ...

RA President won’t prolong emergency rule

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:56:00 GMT
PanARMENIAN Network - We offered them to remove a number of quotations but they refused. As to closure of e-media, it’s hard to follow how the law is observed in this case.

Stock & fund quotes

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 ...

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Latin Proverb


Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. (All the hours wound you, the last one kills)

Sophocles


Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Charles E. Wilson


No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:03:00 GMT
ninemsn - AP - A French court has ordered the release from prison of a Societe Generale trader accused of a massive fraud at the bank. Jerome Kerviel wanted a provisional release from Paris ...

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:46:00 GMT
ninemsn - The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears likely to raise official interest rates again in coming months, after the minutes of its March board meeting suggested further ...

Quotations of the day

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:35:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "When need be, we'll act decisively in a way that continues to bring order to financial markets.'' -- President Bush, trying to calm turmoil in the financial markets. "What we are ...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:44:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on Tuesday after a slide from record peaks a day ago on expectations that a Federal Reserve interest rate cut will hit the U.S. dollar ...

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Max Nordau


Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

Hubert H. Humphrey


In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

John F. Kennedy


The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

George Carlin


I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Robert Southey


How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:16:00 GMT
ninemsn - SHANGHAI, March 18 (Reuters) - Aluminum Corp of China Ltd 2600.HK> 601600.SS>, the country's top producer of the metal, expects the country's production of primary aluminium to ...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:54:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on Tuesday after a slide from record peaks a day ago as investment funds capped exposure to commodities in the face of crumbling global ...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:16:00 GMT
ninemsn - SHANGHAI, March 18 (Reuters) - Aluminum Corp of China Ltd 2600.HK> 601600.SS>, the country's top producer of the metal, expects the country's production of primary aluminium to ...

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:50:00 GMT
ninemsn - A $400 million conversion program at OneSteel's Whyalla steelworks should extend the life of the operations to 2027, South Australian Deputy Premier Kevin Foley says. In Whyalla to ...

L&G concerned over uncertain outlook

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:08:00 GMT
Financial Times - The level of quotations L&G was handling at present was even higher than at the end of last year, and the first half of 2008 should see sales at least at the same rate as the ...

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy


My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)

Marcus Garvey


If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

John Wilson


Oh for a book and a shady nook...

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)


Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Haida Indian saying


We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Benjamin Disraeli


It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

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Tokyo shares close sharply lower on strong yen, credit crisis fears ...

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:24:00 GMT
CNBC - Volume traded fell to 2.37 billion shares from 3.15 billion shares on Friday, when trading was unusually high due to the settlement of special quotations for futures and options ...

RED BULL RACING POST-BRISTOL QUOTES (The Auto Channel)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:41:16 GMT
FREE QUOTES Brian Vickers, No. 83 driver: Not really much to say about today. We had a decent run going, a top-20, with eleven laps to go when we blew a left front tire. That caused us to hit the wall and dropped us from 20th to 39th.

Mexico City: Sunday Quotes (Pitpass)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:41:39 GMT
Mexico City: Sunday Quotes

Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:32:10 GMT
``I kinda like that it's separate. It's not something that I really want to be part of a reality television show. It's a career I want beyond my 15 minutes.'' — Lauren Conrad, on why her first fashion show won't be shown on MTV's ``The Hills.'' The 22-year-old designer/reality star debuted her new line at Mercedes-Benz L.A. Fashion Week this week.

Stock & fund quotes

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 ...