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Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

G.K. Chesterton


The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

George Gurdjieff


Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Danish proverb


If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Green Ingersoll


If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Finley Peter Dunne


An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Harry S Truman


If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Caleb Carr


So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money


At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

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In quotes: Reporters in Tibet (BBC News)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:22:57 GMT
Quotes from a group of journalists who are being shown around the Tibetan city of Lhasa by Chinese officials.

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.

In quotes: Reporters in Tibet (BBC News)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:22:57 GMT
Quotes from a group of journalists who are being shown around the Tibetan city of Lhasa by Chinese officials.

Poetry Quotations (BellaOnline)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:45:50 GMT
Enjoy a special collection of Poetry Quotations to Celebrate National Poetry Month...

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Henri Frdric Amiel


Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Xenophon


The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Victor Hugo


Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough

Oprah Winfrey


Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Moroccan Proverb


He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

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FACTBOX-Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (AlertNet)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:43:57 GMT
Source: Reuters March 29 (Reuters) - Zimbabweans desperate for change began voting on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the ...

FACTBOX - Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:48:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans desperate for change began voting on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.

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Famous Quotations for Today

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J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941


Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Epictetus


Only the educated are free.

Carol Burnett


Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Seneca


If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Robert Green Ingersoll


If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Real Live Preacher


Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:59:17 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES: MARCH 28 (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:27:46 GMT
THE FOLLOWING IS THE BEST QUOTATIONS AVAILABLE FROM COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KUALA LUMPUR AT 11.30 A.M, TODAY, ISSUED BY BANK NEGARA.

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

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:11:21 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.

F1: Bahrain preview quotes: Bridgestone (autosport.com)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:05:57 GMT
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Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.839 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:55:44 GMT
The Canadian Press March 28, 2008 - 1:53 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.839 oz., $605.67 kg.; Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.

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Alexander Hodge


Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

Mort Sahl


Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Arabian Proverb


Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

William Blackstone


Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

Henry Ward Beecher


Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

G. K. Chesterton


My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.

Oliver Bevan


Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

Voltaire


Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.

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F1: Bahrain preview quotes: Bridgestone (autosport.com)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:05:57 GMT
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F1: Bahrain preview quotes: BMW (autosport.com)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:08:24 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: BMW

OFZ market posts slight gains despite high interbank loan market rates (Interfax)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:13:09 GMT
MOSCOW. March 28 (Interfax) - Quotations on the majority of Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) grew slightly on Friday despite rather high rates on the interbank loan market.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:44:29 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of the index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX6,559.90 (-18.16) MDAX 8,761.03 (-14.61) Adidas0.4241.78 (-0.22) Allianz 3.80 126.06 (+3.60) BAS...

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Daily Quotations

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Silius Italicus


Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Henry Clay


All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 1


The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."

George Moore


If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses?

Henry Louis Mencken


School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

Anatole France


Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Georgia O'Keeffe


Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Bhagavad Gita


The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition


I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Confucius


If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand

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F1: Bahrain preview quotes: BMW (autosport.com)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:01:53 GMT
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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:51:05 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:36:01 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

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Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:01:00 GMT
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H Hahn Blavatsky


Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Pablo Picasso


Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Oscar Wilde


Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Jimmy Buffett


If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me

Unknown


When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.

George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8


But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects


The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

William C. Bagley


When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings

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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $19.336 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:11:29 GMT
The Canadian Press March 27, 2008 - 1:56 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.; Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:46:25 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

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