Thursday, March 27, 2008

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Ringo Starr


The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

Robert


This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "heart" or intuition, another.

Thomas a Kempis


Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.

J. S. Bryan


Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible- Galations 5:22-23 NIV


But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.

George Bernard Shaw


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

French Proverb


Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Gustave Flaubert


One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Paul De Rapin


Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

J. J. Fumas


Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

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Lauren LaRocca: The art chakra Beyond soup cans: A visit to the Andy Warhol Museum (The Frederick News-Post)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:07:00 GMT
The Andy Warhol Museum, in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, is seven floors of Warhol's work, time capsules, archived "Interview" magazines (which he founded), Warhol quotations, Warhol films, Warhol's silver wig and phones splattered in paint and cameras.

p0879 BC-China-Tibet 8thLd-Writethru 03-26 1525 (Hays Daily News)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:16:20 GMT
Eds: UPDATES with more detail, quotes from monks' disruption.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

Robert Altman


Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot.

Frank Moore Colby


Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Richard M. Nixon


Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Moliere


No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Walter Dale Langtry


The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

Ocean's Eleven


Danny Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house.

Abbie M. Dale


To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Roy Hattersley


In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.641 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:55:39 GMT
The Canadian Press March 25, 2008 - 1:49 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $18.641 oz., $599.31 kg.; Monday $18.24 oz., $586.42 kg.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:31:06 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

M.Stanley's CICC sale stalls over rules, price (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:08:57 GMT
(Updates story source; adds details, quotes, byline; changes dateline from HONG KONG)

Republicans issue new Clemens report (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:32:28 GMT
Roger Clemens got some new Republican support in his dispute with Brian McNamee.

Famous Quotes for Today

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Milton R. Sapirstein


There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Sir Winston Churchill


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Lowell Duckett


Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed.

Aristotle, Rhetoric


It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Young


If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Charlie Chaplin, O Magazine, October 2002


Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.215 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:08:19 GMT
The Canadian Press March 26, 2008 - 12:59 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.; Tuesday $18.641 oz., $599.31 kg.

McCain calls for more vigorous U.S. diplomacy (AlertNet)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:40:50 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates with Middle East quotes, Obama quotes) By Tim Gaynor LOS ANGELES, March 26 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to chart an independent ...

Shareholders OK Thomson's Reuters Buy (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:25:59 GMT
Shareholders of Thomson Corp. and Reuters Group PLC on Wednesday approved Thomson's $16.2 billion cash and stock purchase of the London-based news and information company.

Quotes & Comments (Western Herald)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:30:59 GMT
"At the end of the game I want him to be breathless and remember what team he played against and how hard he worked." - Michael Flowers, Wisconsin's senior defensive specialist, about getting ready to defend Davidson star Stephen Curry, who is averaging 25.5 points per game.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:36:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

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Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light


A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Billy Rose


Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

H. L. Mencken


In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

George John Whyte-Melville


We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

Buddha


You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

W. H. Auden


Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.

Lewis S Feuer


Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

William Wordsworth


Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

Walt West


The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950


If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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Former Norwegian boss guilty of fraud over Mikel (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:13:45 GMT
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Shareholders OK Thomson's Reuters Buy (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:25:59 GMT
Shareholders of Thomson Corp. and Reuters Group PLC on Wednesday approved Thomson's $16.2 billion cash and stock purchase of the London-based news and information company.

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.641 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:07:54 GMT
The Canadian Press March 25, 2008 - 1:49 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $18.641 oz., $599.31 kg.; Monday $18.24 oz., $586.42 kg.

BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES: MARCH 25 (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:55:57 GMT
THE FOLLOWING IS THE BEST QUOTATIONS AVAILABLE FROM COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KUALA LUMPUR AT 11.30 A.M, TODAY, ISSUED BY BANK NEGARA.

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Joel Finack


In this dispensation, God has clearly included the burial and resurrection of Christ along with His death as a part of 'the gospel' (1 Cor. 151-4)...It is God who has set these terms as the content of our faith in order to be saved. This is the METHOD of salvation in this day of grace.

Susan Ertz


Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

John Calhoun


The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Granville Hicks


A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Bible


Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Baltasar Gracian


The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

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The views of Pennsylvania Catholics (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:05:33 GMT
Quotes from Pennsylvania Catholics who are planning to vote in the state's Democratic primary on April 22:

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:06:05 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

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Hamilton Wright Mabi


Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul


Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

Martin Heidegger


For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

Arthur Schopenhauer


The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Henry Louis Mencken


One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Johnson


The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill


Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

William Hamilton


It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

Marilyn Vos Savant


A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Clare Booth Luce


Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:51:15 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,533.2512,548.64(-15.39) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,332.94 2,326.75(+ 6.19) TokyoNikkei12,745.2212,480.09(+ 265.13) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,355....

Quotes of the day (Salon.com)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:00:20 GMT
John McCain excoriates those who sentimentalize war, which left us wondering: Who did that recently?