Quotations Update

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Office Space


Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

George Santayana


Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

Lois McMaster Bujold


If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us

Sir B. Brodie


The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website


Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Quintus Fabius Maximus


To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Euripides, 438 B.C.


I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Author Unknown


If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

Dwight D Eisenhower


From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Unknown


If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.

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

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:24:17 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Renault

Quotes of the week (BBC News)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:00:53 GMT
Rio Ferdinand's mantelpiece blunder, plus all your top chants

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:31:35 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.March 31 March 28difference New York Dow Jones 12,280.1512,216.40(+63.75) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,276.76 2,261.18(+15.58) TokyoNikkei12,525.5412,820.47(- 294.93) ...

Poetry Quotations (BellaOnline)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:47:35 GMT
Enjoy a special collection of Poetry Quotations to Celebrate National Poetry Month...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:31:45 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,534.97 (-24.93) MDAX8,787.38 (+26.35) Adidas 42.11 (+0.33) Allianz 125.48 (-0.58) BASF 85...

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Latest greatest Quotations

Today's Quotations:

Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156-160.


O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

Malcolm X


Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Bernard De Voto


Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

John Dryden


Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Samuel Adams


Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon


If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

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

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:39:37 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Williams

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

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:24:28 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Toyota

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

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:12:18 GMT
BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES: APRIL 01 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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Latest Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes:

Robert Ingersoll


Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal


Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.

Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-07-05


The inability to secure a reservation drives yuppies absolutely crazy.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)


Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Edward Young


Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.

Woody Allen


Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

George Aiken


If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.

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Advertisement starts (Tiscali)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:59:46 GMT
-- an Arabic term sometimes translated as "strife" -- intersperses images of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran, Islam’s holy book.

St. Pete: GT drivers pre-race quotes (Motorsport.com)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:13:57 GMT
"Actually, I love going to the area. The fans are really great down there. Last year was the first year I did St. Pete and it was a really great event. It was good racing; I really enjoyed it."

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:45:47 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

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Famous Quotations for Today

Here are the Famous Quotations ...

G. W. F. Hegel


Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Jean Kerr


Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Charles J. C. Lyall


There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

Mother Theresa


People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

Rudyard Kipling


Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

C. S. Lewis


No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Jim Lehrer


I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)

Oscar Wilde


Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Ignacio Estrada


If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:44:40 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,534.97 (-24.93) MDAX8,787.38 (+26.35) Adidas 42.11 (+0.33) Allianz 125.48 (-0.58) BASF 85...

Fine silver quotations Monday: $18.577 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:12:16 GMT
The Canadian Press March 31, 2008 - 1:02 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $18.577 oz., $597.25 kg.; Friday $18.839 oz., $605.67 kg.

Exobox Continues its Efforts to Become Quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board(R) as Authorized Market Maker Files Form 211 ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:33:00 GMT
On Friday, March 28, 2008, an authorized market maker filed a Form 211 with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority , formerly the NASD, to initiate quotations of Exobox Technologies Corp. common stock on the OTC Bulletin Board®.

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Great Quotes

Check out these Quotes:

Anon.


Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Miguel de Cervantes


The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

Vince Lombardi


After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

Sophocles


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Niels Henrik David Bohr


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

Victor Hugo


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

Mark Twain


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

Harry S Truman


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

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.

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.

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

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:24:28 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Toyota

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

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:24:17 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Renault

Botswana: Mogae's Quotable Quotes (AllAfrica.com)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:48:57 GMT
An American scholar once remarked that when it comes to "presidential timber", it is painfully obvious that presidents do not all come from the same trees. Some are carved from redwoods, others from sturdy oaks, and then there are those whose origins may well have been milkweeds or hydrangea bushes.

Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.839 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:04:30 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.

Fine silver quotations Monday: $18.577 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:19:30 GMT
The Canadian Press March 31, 2008 - 1:02 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $18.577 oz., $597.25 kg.; Friday $18.839 oz., $605.67 kg.

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Daily Quotes

Here are the Quotes ...

Neil Kinnock


I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

Unknown


He was a true friend, he stabbed me in the front.

Ronald Reagan


Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Lao Tzu


It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

Henry David Thoreau


Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

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Fine silver quotations Monday: $18.577 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:12:16 GMT
The Canadian Press March 31, 2008 - 1:02 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $18.577 oz., $597.25 kg.; Friday $18.839 oz., $605.67 kg.

Exobox Continues its Efforts to Become Quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board(R) as Authorized Market Maker Files Form 211 ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:33:00 GMT
On Friday, March 28, 2008, an authorized market maker filed a Form 211 with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority , formerly the NASD, to initiate quotations of Exobox Technologies Corp. common stock on the OTC Bulletin Board®.

Botswana: Mogae's Quotable Quotes (AllAfrica.com)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:35:23 GMT
An American scholar once remarked that when it comes to "presidential timber", it is painfully obvious that presidents do not all come from the same trees. Some are carved from redwoods, others from sturdy oaks, and then there are those whose origins may well have been milkweeds or hydrangea bushes.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:44:30 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.March 31 March 28difference New York Dow Jones 12,280.1512,216.40(+63.75) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,276.76 2,261.18(+15.58) TokyoNikkei12,525.5412,820.47(- 294.93) ...

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