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Dwight D. Eisenhower


In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Ronald Reagan


Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)

George Bernard Shaw


An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Proverbs 1532 Bible


He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

William Shakespeare


Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.

G. M. Trevelyan


The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

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Jerome K Jerome


It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Henry Louis Mencken


The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Malcolm Forbes


Men who never get carried away should be.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor"


No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see.

Joe Moore


Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Benjamin Franklin


Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

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Quotable quotes (Daily Dispatch)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:55:22 GMT
l PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe: “If you lose an election and are rejected by the people, it is time to leave politics.” l Opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai: “The people’s victory is assured.”

FACTBOX: Quotes from "Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:07:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Dith Pran, whose ordeal at the hands of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime was depicted in the movie "The Killing Fields," became a crusader for the restoration of his homeland.

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.

Martinsville: Dodge teams race quotes (Motorsport.com)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:14:47 GMT
HOW HARD WAS IT TO GET A TOP-15 TODAY? "We started where we started back there (started 29th) and we finally got some track position, but the car was pretty much off all day. We never got the forward bite that we needed.

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Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05


If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

Peggy Joyce


Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.

Andrew Schneider


Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

Lee Iacocca


My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky


Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

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

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans voted 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.

UPDATE: Iraq's Sadr Orders Fighters Withdraw From Streets-AFP (Nasdaq)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:31:13 GMT
(Adds quotes, background.) NAJAF, Iraq (AFP)--Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr Sunday ordered his fighters to withdraw from the streets of all neighbourhoods where his militiamen are engaged in fierce clashes with security forces.

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Aristotle, Rhetoric


Evil draws men together.

Albert Einstein


Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Abraham Lincoln


In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Elizabeth Drew


Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06-02-04


When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it�s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Vince Lombardi


You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live.

Aeschylus


It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Bertrand Russell


Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

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My Favorite Quotes and Quips (The Lexington News-Gazette)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:27:59 GMT
I'm a word guy, and my office wall here at home is plastered with pithy quotes, sayings, poetry (questionable), and inspiration that I've been collecting for half a century.

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.

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George W. Bush


You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

Horace Walpole


The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.

Sir Winston Churchill


If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.

Kahlil Gibran


You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

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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.

My Favorite Quotes and Quips (The Lexington News-Gazette)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:27:59 GMT
I'm a word guy, and my office wall here at home is plastered with pithy quotes, sayings, poetry (questionable), and inspiration that I've been collecting for half a century.

Poetry Quotations (BellaOnline)

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

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

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:14:08 GMT
Source: Reuters March 29 (Reuters) - Zimbabweans voted 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- ...

Election day: In quotes (BBC News)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:17:20 GMT
What some of the key players have been saying on election day in Zimbabwe.

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Theodore Roosevelt


Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Carl Zwanzig


Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

George Herbert Walker Bush


America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

David Bailey


It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

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My Favorite Quotes and Quips (The Lexington News-Gazette)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:27:59 GMT
I'm a word guy, and my office wall here at home is plastered with pithy quotes, sayings, poetry (questionable), and inspiration that I've been collecting for half a century.

Martinsville: Dodge teams Happy Hour quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:29:48 GMT
HOW DOES THE BACK FEEL TODAY? "The back is a little sore. I'm going to ice it down and take some inflammatory medicine and try and get as best prepared as I can."

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.

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

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans voted 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.

Iran summons Dutch ambassador over Koran film-report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:09:55 GMT
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador on Sunday to protest against a film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, state radio said.

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