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Fred Allen


What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement

Francesco Guicciardini


The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Sir Winston Churchill


It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Benjamin Franklin


There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Barbara Hall


You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why Because it feels sooo good.

T.S. Eliot


Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Clarence Thomas


Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

John Keats


I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

Dan Quayle


When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple Who is to blame for the riots The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings The killers are to blame.

Matt Groening, "Life in Hell"


Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Las


I know where we're going, I just don't know where that IS

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Quotes from House hearings on Iraq (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:23:56 GMT
Some quotes from lawmakers during Wednesday's House hearings on Iraq, which featured testimony from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker:

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:

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

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:50:00 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.

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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Thomas Jefferson


One man with courage is a majority.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money


At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Shirley Temple


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit


What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

William Shakespeare


Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.

Johann von Goethe


Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.

Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi


Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

Gerald Nachman


Nothing fails like success.

Charles A. Stoddard


We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

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

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:23:00 GMT
Some quotes from lawmakers during Wednesday's House hearings on Iraq, which featured testimony from Gen.

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.

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

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

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:54:56 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.

Quotes from House hearings on Iraq (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:23:56 GMT
Some quotes from lawmakers during Wednesday's House hearings on Iraq, which featured testimony from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker:

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Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


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

Quentin Crisp


The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

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Instant Life Insurance Quotes Provide Peace of Mind (Richfield Reaper)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:40:20 GMT
(ARA) - Life can be unpredictable. As you plan for the future, it's a good idea to have all your financial bases covered. One thing that can provide some peace of mind: a life insurance policy.

Quotes from Tuesday's hearings on progress in Iraq (The Oakland Press)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:08:33 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."

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:

Quotes from House hearings on Iraq (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:23:56 GMT
Some quotes from lawmakers during Wednesday's House hearings on Iraq, which featured testimony from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker:

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Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Bradley Miller


Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Henry David Thoreau


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

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FACTBOX-Quotes from Iraq commander's testimony (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:31:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Gen.

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:

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.

In quotes: Candidates on Iraq report (BBC News)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:56:06 GMT
Front-runners in the race to be the next US president give their response to Gen Petraeus's progress report on Iraq