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Voltaire


I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Neil Kinnock


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

Germaine Greer


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

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.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Thomas Paine


When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Miguel de Cervantes


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

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Robert Pirsig


Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Victor Hugo


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

John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight


...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

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Thomas Jefferson


In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox


And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2


The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.

Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967


Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will.

Phil Condit


None of us is as smart as all of us.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius


If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Walter Frederick Mondale


I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

Rev. Jesse Jackson


We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.64 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:49:48 GMT
The Canadian Press April 8, 2008 - 1:43 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $18.64 oz., $599.28 kg.; Monday $19.165 oz., $616.15 kg.

Quotes from Tuesday's hearings on progress in Iraq (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:12:44 GMT
"This new increase in violence raises questions about the military success of the surge. But, more significantly, the purpose of the surge, as announced by President Bush last year, which was to give the Iraqi leaders breathing room to work out a settlement, has not been achieved."

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.64 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:49:48 GMT
The Canadian Press April 8, 2008 - 1:43 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $18.64 oz., $599.28 kg.; Monday $19.165 oz., $616.15 kg.

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William Makepeace Thackeray


To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness

George Bernard Shaw


Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Benjamin Disraeli


Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Jon Stewart, The Daily Show: Referring to the victory of George W. Bush in the 2004 election.


Democracy works. Against us.

Cornelius Stam


Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved--it is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Thomas Fuller


If you have a true friend, you have more than your share.

Frank Lloyd Wright


Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

William Shakespeare


I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003


Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Benjamin Franklin


Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

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Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright's incendiary quotes illuminate chasm between races (Dallas Morning News)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:03:48 GMT
The incendiary quotes of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright were like the O.J. Simpson verdict: a cultural lightning bolt illuminating a chasm between the races, followed by thunderous arguments.

Quotes from Iraq hearings (AP via Yahoo! News)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:03:29 GMT
Some quotes from lawmakers during Tuesday's Senate hearings on Iraq, which featured testimony from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker:

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:41:20 GMT
"To create damage to property or danger to other people is just as bad as the human rights violations they are protesting.''

Quotes From Iraq Hearings (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:03:00 GMT
Some quotes from lawmakers during Tuesday's Senate hearings on Iraq, which featured testimony from Gen.

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John Von Neumann


The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

Edward De Bono


I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Unknown


Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776


All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

John Holt


No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

Cicero


There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

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Quotes from young Pennsylvania voters (AP via Yahoo! News)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:32:01 GMT
Quotes from young voters in Pennsylvania who plan to vote in the state's Democratic primary on April 22:

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:31:07 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,771.98 (-49.05) MDAX8,939.19 (- 178.98) Adidas 41.82 (-0.47) Allianz 131.89 (-1.32) BASF ...

BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES: APRIL 08 (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:23:47 GMT
BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES: 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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David Reisman


Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

La Rochefoucauld


Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

General Douglas Macarthur


Americans never quit.

J. M. Barrie


We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Samuel Johnson


Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

J. Paul Getty


If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Rita Rudner


I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Homer


There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

Rebecca West


Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

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Sign Up for the Spirituality Newsletter (BellaOnline)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:30:30 GMT
The Spirituality Newsletter will include updates on new articles along with positive affirmations, inspirational quotations, and interesting facts about spirituality.

Can't find stock quotes? Call the Central Library in Rochester, NY. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:40:06 GMT
It is tax season, and many individuals are trying to find stock quotes via free financial websites, such as Yahoo Finance. The problem is that historical stock quotes for companies such as Bausch & Lomb have disappeared from these free web sites. Librarians at the Central Library can get this info.

OK KO Live Monday's Close (KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:29:54 GMT
Associated Press - April 8, 2008 11:25 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Here are Monday's closing cattle and hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:41:41 GMT
"To create damage to property or danger to other people is just as bad as the human rights violations they are protesting.''

In quotes: Candidates on Iraq report (BBC News)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:58:19 GMT
Front-runners in the race to be the next US president give their response to Gen Petraeus's progress report on Iraq

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Juvenal


But who is to guard the guards themselves

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Wernher von Braun


I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

Edward Teller


Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

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