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Samuel Beckett


The major sin is the sin of being born.

George Bernard Shaw


The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

Richard D. Rosen


Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Laurence J. Peter


A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan


The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

Fred Allen


A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Ralph W. Sockman


Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Julian Weber Gordon


Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

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Town hall quotes below estimates (Enterprise Mountaineer)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:22:38 GMT
The quotes are in and the numbers look good. The low bids for the construction of a new town administrative building and police station for Waynesville came in at $ 3,576,473.

Quotations of the Day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:43:40 GMT
"Four years on, the conflict in Darfur persists at extreme and unacceptable levels.'' -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saying that the suffering in the Sudanese region may have gotten worse in recent years.

Town hall quotes below estimates (Enterprise Mountaineer)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:22:38 GMT
The quotes are in and the numbers look good. The low bids for the construction of a new town administrative building and police station for Waynesville came in at $ 3,576,473.

Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.401 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:04:43 GMT
The Canadian Press April 4, 2008 - 12:52 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.401 oz., $591.59 kg.; Thursday $18.462 oz., $593.55 kg.

Quotations of the Day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:38:49 GMT
"Here was a man who understood nonviolence at a depth that I had never known before.'' -- C.T. Vivian, a former associate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader's assassination.

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Josh Billings


Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Herbert Spencer


Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Charles Buxton


Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Chinese Proverb


Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Gypsy Smith


You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 2


The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay


He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Hunter S. Thompson


Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Nedra Carroll


If you have a fallback plan, you will fall back.

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F1: Bahrain Friday quotes: Super Aguri (autosport.com)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:40:24 GMT
Bahrain Friday quotes: Super Aguri

Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.401 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:04:43 GMT
The Canadian Press April 4, 2008 - 12:52 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.401 oz., $591.59 kg.; Thursday $18.462 oz., $593.55 kg.

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Henry David Thoreau


I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Thomas Carlyle


A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12


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

B. A. Billingsly


Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here"


Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

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Google Changes Behavior For Showing Results Queried in Quotations (Search Engine Roundtable)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:08:51 GMT
Google has changed how they handle displaying search results for when you use quotes in the search box and when there are not many or any matches. For example, a search on "super running for life" at Google would normally return no results, since there are no matching documents for that phrase as a phrase. But now Google shows a link for "See results for: super running for life," without ...

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

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:54:17 GMT
Bahrain Friday quotes: Renault

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:30:40 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.2 April 1 Aprildifference New York Dow Jones 12,689.4512,654.36(+35.09) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,380.27 2,362.75(+17.52) TokyoNikkei13,189.3612,656.42(+ 532.94) Sy...

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Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:31:00 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets ...

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Will Rogers


Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. senators.

Frances Watkins Harper


Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Elliot Wayne Eisner


We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Adlai Stevenson


She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Horace Mann


Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Barbara Hall


Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Athenus


Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:31:00 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets ...

Google Changes Behavior For Showing Results Queried in Quotations (Search Engine Roundtable)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:08:51 GMT
Google has changed how they handle displaying search results for when you use quotes in the search box and when there are not many or any matches. For example, a search on "super running for life" at Google would normally return no results, since there are no matching documents for that phrase as a phrase. But now Google shows a link for "See results for: super running for life," without ...

Town hall quotes below estimates (Enterprise Mountaineer)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:22:38 GMT
The quotes are in and the numbers look good. The low bids for the construction of a new town administrative building and police station for Waynesville came in at $ 3,576,473.

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Karl Barth


Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Thomas Jefferson


There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Sir Winston Churchill


A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Louis Untermeyer


Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars

Carl Sagan


It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup" 1934


Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.

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Mary Pickford


This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948


The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Wilson Mizner


Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Unknown


A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.

Dr. Seuss


From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

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