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Albert Schweitzer


As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Graffito, in Los Angeles


I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.

Marcus Terentius Varro


The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

George Orwell


Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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.

William Powell


Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Samuel Smiles


It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)


Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.

The Sufi


Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn.

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Mary O'Hara


Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.

Sovereign


In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit.

Danish proverb


If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see.

Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner


Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Charlotte Bronte


A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

H. L. Mencken


The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Sir Compton MacKenzie


The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal

Hilaire Belloc


When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Tertullian


He who flees will fight again...

Franklin P. Jones


Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

H. L. Mencken


Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

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Richard Willard Armour


He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Prince Philip of England


Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

Thomas Jefferson


Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

William Shakespeare


Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee.

Thomas Fuller


Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

James Dent


Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out.

Benjamin Johnson


It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Jerome K Jerome


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

Diogenes Laertius


The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Marilyn Monroe


An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Stendhal


All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino


You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death


If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

William Lloyd Garrison


With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Dan Quayle


I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Rousseau


Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

M. Hirschfield


Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail.ca


Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.

Theodore Roosevelt


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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Roger Zelazny


Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde


The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Billy Rose


Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Jeremy Bernstein


Never speak more clearly than you think.

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Albert Camus


The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Richard Baxter


In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Benjamin Franklin


It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.993 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:04:30 GMT
The Canadian Press April 2, 2008 - 12:52 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.993 oz., $578.47 kg.; Tuesday $17.834 oz., $573.36 kg.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.462 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:50:46 GMT
The Canadian Press April 3, 2008 - 12:30 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $18.462 oz., $593.55 kg.; Wednesday $17.993 oz., $578.47 kg.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:58:29 GMT
"We are no longer staring into the abyss of defeat, and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success.'' -- Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on what he says is a recent success in the war in Iraq.

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