Sunday, April 13, 2008

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Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004


I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

Jesse Stuart


Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Barry Duncan


Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Thomas Jefferson


The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Made


Ricky Here's 50 bucks, take this in case I get drunk and call you a bitch later.

Casey Stengel


They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Edwin Markham


The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Charles Dickens


Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

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...

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:38:53 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.11 April10 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,438.9212,581.98(- 143.06) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,320.36 2,351.70(-31.34) TokioNikkei13,323.7312,945.30(+ 378.43...

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:23:39 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index 5,895.50(- 69.60)(- 1.17 %) BAT Industries 1,909.00(-4.00)(- 0.21 %) BP Amoco     547.00(-3.00)(- 0.55 %) Diageo   1,049...

UCF Spring Football Game - Postgame Quotes (UCF Golden Knights)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:28:22 GMT
UCF held its first spring football game inside Bright House Networks Stadium on Saturday. Following the contest, head coach George O'Leary and several Knights spoke to members of the media about the game.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:47:21 GMT
"If somebody's got a choice between being in a plane crash and being late, is there a choice?'' -- Jane Bernard, who was delayed at least three hours en route from LaGuardia Airport to Miami. American Airlines grounded hundreds of flights to comply with federally ordered safety audits.

Shanghai: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:19:21 GMT
Shanghai: Friday Quotes

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Sharon Salzberg


Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra


Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Alfred Hitchcock


Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

Ernest Hemingway


Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Stanley Kubrick


A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:21:53 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index 5,895.50(- 69.60)(- 1.17 %) BAT Industries 1,909.00(-4.00)(- 0.21 %) BP Amoco     547.00(-3.00)(- 0.55 %) Diageo   1,049...

Dubai - Race 1 Quotes (Pitpass)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:47:45 GMT
Dubai - Race 1 Quotes

Bomb blast in south Iran mosque kills 9, wounds 105 (AlertNet)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:54:28 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates casualty toll, adds witness quotes) By Zahra Hosseinian and Hossein Jaseb TEHRAN, April 12 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Iranian city Shiraz on Saturday, killing ...

Shanghai: Saturday Quotes (Pitpass)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:32:58 GMT
Shanghai: Saturday Quotes

Shanghai: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:17:45 GMT
Shanghai: Friday Quotes

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Anais Nin


Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Carl Sagan


The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Henry David Thoreau


Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Jiddu Krishnamurti


Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Billie Joe


Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

William Lyon Phelps


The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

Margot Asquith


What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Sacha Guitry


The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

Katharine Hepburn


Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

John Newton


How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin


It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

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Shanghai: Saturday Quotes (Pitpass)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:34:21 GMT
Shanghai: Saturday Quotes

Bomb blast in south Iran mosque kills 9, wounds 105 (AlertNet)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:53:53 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates casualty toll, adds witness quotes) By Zahra Hosseinian and Hossein Jaseb TEHRAN, April 12 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Iranian city Shiraz on Saturday, killing ...

Haiti food crisis shows need for action-World Bank (AlertNet)

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:08:49 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, details) WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - The situation in Haiti, where the government fell on Saturday after more than a week of food riots, highlights the need for action to deal ...

Bomb blast in south Iran mosque kills 9, wounds 105 (AlertNet)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:53:53 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates casualty toll, adds witness quotes) By Zahra Hosseinian and Hossein Jaseb TEHRAN, April 12 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Iranian city Shiraz on Saturday, killing ...

Haiti food crisis shows need for action-World Bank (AlertNet)

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:08:49 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, details) WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - The situation in Haiti, where the government fell on Saturday after more than a week of food riots, highlights the need for action to deal ...

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Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour


I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Fran Lebowitz


Nothing succeeds like address.

Richard Milhous Nixon


Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Author Unknown


The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.

H Hahn Blavatsky


Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Thomas Jefferson


Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

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Bomb explodes in Iranian mosque, 8 killed (AlertNet)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:08:49 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, increases number wounded) By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN, April 12 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a mosque in southern Iran on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding more than ...

Dubai - Race 1 Quotes (Pitpass)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:49:40 GMT
Dubai - Race 1 Quotes

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.974 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:13:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 10, 2008 - 3:05 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $18.974 oz., $610.01 kg.; Wednesday $19.282 oz., $619.92 kg.

FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES ANTONIO TARVER & CLINTON WOODS, CHAD DAWSON & GLEN JOHNSON (Bragging Rights Corner)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:32:04 GMT
A boxing publication for the fans by the fans featuring boxing news, boxing schedule, fighters interviews, boxing articles, boxing cartoon and more..

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Daily Famous Quotations

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Andre Bernard Buruch


I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.

Walt Whitman


Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me And why should I not speak to you

William Butler Yeats


Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Dr.


The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Irish Proverb


Praise youth and it will prosper.

Jay Leno


There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

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Fine silver quotations Friday: C$18.773 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:43:29 GMT
The Canadian Press April 11, 2008 - 12:32 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.773 oz., $603.55 kg.; Thursday $18.974 oz., $610.01 kg.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:38:13 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,603.57 (- 100.75) MDAX8,809.68 (-53.55) Adidas 40.35 (-0.17) Allianz 127.78 (-2.54) BASF ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:38:34 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,646.7112,527.26(+ 119.45) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,362.03 2,322.12(+39.91) TokyoNikkei12,945.3013,111.89(- 166.59) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,51...

Phoenix: Dodge teams Happy Hour quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:27:44 GMT
"I'm pretty happy right now with the Alltel Dodge. I like our qualifying yesterday. I like our practice sessions today. I like our pit stall tomorrow. It's a long race and the conditions will change a lot during the day, but I think we have a good race car.

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George Carlin


Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

S Hayakawa


How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

Demetri Kolokotronis


I banish fear with two words: you lead.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Marcus Garvey


If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Henry Louis Mencken


No man ever quite believes in any other man.

Simone Weil


Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Giosu, Borsi


The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

Benjamin Franklin


The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Charles Dickens


A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"


#3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.

Jean Cocteau


The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness.

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Nepal Maoists take shock lead in early vote count (AlertNet)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:53:59 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates with Maoist chief's victory, quotes, tally) By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, April 12 (Reuters) - Nepal's Maoist former rebels took a shock early lead on Saturday in an election aimed at ...

FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES ANTONIO TARVER & CLINTON WOODS, CHAD DAWSON & GLEN JOHNSON (Bragging Rights Corner)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:32:04 GMT
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Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:17:01 GMT
“I really can never put myself in the category of people who have not only revolutionized music but also changed the world. That’s a completely different era and time ... I’m just feeling really happy and grateful.” — Mariah Carey, on surpassing Elvis Presley for the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

Shanghai: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:19:21 GMT
Shanghai: Friday Quotes

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:47:21 GMT
"If somebody's got a choice between being in a plane crash and being late, is there a choice?'' -- Jane Bernard, who was delayed at least three hours en route from LaGuardia Airport to Miami. American Airlines grounded hundreds of flights to comply with federally ordered safety audits.

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