Thursday, March 20, 2008

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Unknown


It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.

Tom Landry


Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Robert J. Sawyer


You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Victor Hugo


If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

H. Mathews


A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine


Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery.

James Baldwin


I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine


Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.

Charles Lamb


Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Albert Einstein


How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

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Quotes, comments, musings on Gov. Paterson's historic ascension (AM New York)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:33:51 GMT
Comments, quotes and musings at the inauguration of New York 's first black governor, Democrat David Paterson , a man known for his bipartisan approach that will be tested in hard fiscal times.

Bush on Iraq - the quotes (TVNZ)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:14:25 GMT
"Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly - yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."

k1039 BC-OK-KOLive 03-18 0078 (Hays Daily News)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:47:49 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are Tuesday's opening cattle and closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE -- No opening quotes.

Nanya successful in keeping DRAM contract quotes flat in 2H March (Digi Times)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:33:42 GMT
Despite the persistence of a sluggish DRAM market, Nanya Technology has been successful in preserving price stability for its quotes in the second half of March, as there is no oversupply, said company spokesperson and vice president of global sales and marketing Pei-Lin Pai.

State promotes Web site for insurance quotes (The Republican)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:06:30 GMT
SPRINGFIELD - State Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes encouraged lunchtime passers-by today at the food court in Tower Square to plug their information into a state Web site and find out how much money they could save on their auto insurance once managed competition starts April 1.

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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter


Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

George Gordon Byron


Adversity is the first path to truth.

Edmund Burke


The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Kahlil Gibran


No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961


Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Kurt Vonnegut


We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

J.B. Priestley


Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Robert Byrne


Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Johnson


It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Salvador De Madriaga


He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Jewish Proverb


Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

Mark Twain


We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:36:29 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,361.22 (-32.17) MDAX8,306.11 (- 141.84) Adidas 38.66 (-0.24) Allianz 110.94 (+0.80) BASF ...

k1039 BC-OK-KOLive 03-18 0078 (Hays Daily News)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:47:49 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are Tuesday's opening cattle and closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE -- No opening quotes.

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David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair


Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

William Saroyan


Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Glen Drake


The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.

Golda Meir


To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Byron J. Langenfeld


Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

William Gibson


The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.101 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:50 GMT
The Canadian Press March 19, 2008 - 12:44 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.101 oz., $614.10 kg.; Tuesday $20.694 oz., $665.31 kg.

k1039 BC-OK-KOLive 03-18 0078 (Hays Daily News)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:47:49 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are Tuesday's opening cattle and closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE -- No opening quotes.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:36:15 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

State promotes Web site for insurance quotes (The Republican)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:06:30 GMT
SPRINGFIELD - State Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes encouraged lunchtime passers-by today at the food court in Tower Square to plug their information into a state Web site and find out how much money they could save on their auto insurance once managed competition starts April 1.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:36:15 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

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Lyndon B. Johnson


Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal


Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.

Lady Bird Johnson


The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Anthony Powell


He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Louisa May Alcott


Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

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AccuQuote.com, a Leader in Providing Term Life Insurance Quotes Online, Plans to Increase Staff by 30 Percent, Adding ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:01:00 GMT
AccuQuote.com, an established leader in providing term life insurance coverage and term life insurance quotes to people across the country, today announced its plan to add up to 60 new job opportunities at it's Chicago, Illinois and Evergreen, Colorado locations. The job opportunities range from entry-level to management positions.

F1: Malaysia preview quotes: Renault (autosport.com)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:16:43 GMT
Malaysia preview quotes: Renault

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:45:58 GMT
"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.

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Alan Ashley-Pitt


The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Woody Allen


What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell


We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Virgil


Each man is led by his own liking.

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F1: Malaysia preview quotes: Williams (autosport.com)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:16:53 GMT
Malaysia preview quotes: Williams

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:45:58 GMT
"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.

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Samuel McChord Crothers


A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Hal Borland


A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9


Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Henry M. Wriston


A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.

Bobby Knight


All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

John P. Grier


The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.

Richard M. Nixon


I would have made a good Pope.

Robert Benchley


Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Dr. Thomas Dooley


Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Ambrose Bierce


Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:36:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Mills' quotes on settlement (The Mercury)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:00:00 GMT
SOME key quotes by Heather Mills, outside the High Court, after her divorce deal with Paul McCartney was agreed.