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Victor Hugo


Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Elvis Presley


Man, I was tame compared to what they do now, are you kidding ? All that I ever did was just jiggle.

Carl Jung


As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in 1943


I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

B. J. Gupta


Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991


But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Euripides


Your very silence shows you agree.

Albert Einstein


It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Heinrich Heine


Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Napoleon Hill


First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774


The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Elayne Boosler


When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:33:08 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX6,821.32 (+ 26.29) MDAX 9,181.51 (- 51.01) Adidas41.79 (+0.43) Allianz128.07 (-0.71) BASF93....

Quotes from the Democratic candidates after Pennsylvania primary (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:38:21 GMT
Quotes from New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama after the Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday. "You know, the pundits questioned whether Pennsylvanians would trust me with this charge. And tonight you showed you do.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Brian Tracy


You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Al Franken


Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

Socrates


Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Benjamin Disraeli


Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Gen. Joseph Stilwell


Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King


The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time.

Baltasar Gracian


At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

CaddyShack


Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet


To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Samuel Johnson


To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Henry David Thoreau


Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:00 GMT
"I am telling you frankly that the most important obstacle to the peace process and the negotiations is the continuation of the settlement activities. Therefore, I am calling on ...

Harvard Business School Publishes a Case Study on Robert Wessman and ... - Phramalive.com

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:21:00 GMT
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 24, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Actavis Group, the international generic pharmaceuticals company, today announced that has published a case study on the Company ...

Garth George : Keeping piece of history at hand - New Zealand Herald

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:40:00 GMT
On the mantelpiece in the lounge of my home sits a flat, nearly-oval stone, about 10cm by 8cm. Three years ago today I picked it up from the stony beach at Anzac Cove at the foot ...

Actor Snipes gets three years prison for not filing taxes - Raw Story

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:07:00 GMT
A US federal judge on Thursday sentenced Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes to three years in prison Thursday for failing to file his tax returns from 1999 to 2004, the Department of ...

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Today's Quotations:

B. J. Gupta


Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society.

J. R. R. Tolkien


One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Jonathan Swift


Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Aristotle


...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

Willa Cather


Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Philip K. Dick, Valis


Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Arthur Ashe


Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Albert Einstein


Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Will Durant


One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I don't think I'm ever more 'aware' than I am right after I hit my thumb with a hammer.

William Shakespeare


The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:00 GMT
"I am telling you frankly that the most important obstacle to the peace process and the negotiations is the continuation of the settlement activities. Therefore, I am calling on ...

Harvard Business School Publishes a Case Study on Robert Wessman and ... - Phramalive.com

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:21:00 GMT
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 24, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Actavis Group, the international generic pharmaceuticals company, today announced that has published a case study on the Company ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:32:00 GMT
SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) - Gold rose on Friday on bargain hunting after it dropped to a three-week low, but gains may be limited with a firming dollar robbing the metal of ...

Garth George : Keeping piece of history at hand - New Zealand Herald

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:40:00 GMT
On the mantelpiece in the lounge of my home sits a flat, nearly-oval stone, about 10cm by 8cm. Three years ago today I picked it up from the stony beach at Anzac Cove at the foot ...

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Famous Quotes:

Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News


Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

Bill Veeck


Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

William S. Burroughs


Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Aristotle


Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Russell M. Nelson


We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.

Lily Tomlin


The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Joyce


Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.


Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Dwight D Eisenhower


Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

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Iraqi reconciliation has succeeded - KUTV

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:02:00 GMT
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's prime minister says national reconciliation efforts have broken new ground and all political blocs have agreed to return to the Shiite-led government. Prime ...

Asia Naphtha-BPCL sells 1H low-aromatic; higher premium - Reuters India

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:11:00 GMT
SEOUL, April 25 (Reuters) - India's Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) sold 27,000 tonnes of low-aromatic naphtha at a premium of $5-$6 a tonne to Middle East quotes from Kochi, a ...

We fear for our lives - pupils - Cape Times

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:38:00 GMT
More than 1 000 angry and scared pupils from Phindulwazi High in Lower Crossroads took to the streets yesterday to register their grievances with education authorities after yet ...

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Franklin D. Roosevelt


In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.

Thomas Jefferson


The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor


Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

Irish Proverb


A light heart lives long.

Susan Taylor


Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Homer


A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

Helen Keller


I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

Ben J. Wattenberg


The plural of anecdote is data.

X. Doudan


Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

Seneca


It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started


Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.

H. Jackson Browne


In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.

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Oil prices fall further in Asian trade - Forbes

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:32:00 GMT
profits. New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in June, fell 46 cents to $115.60 per barrel. The benchmark contract closed down $2.24 at $116.06 a ...

Special Report aired quotes from military analyst Robert Scales -- but ... - Media Matters

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Summary: In two separate reports since The New York Times published an exposé on the hidden ties between media military analysts and the Pentagon, Fox News' Special Report aired ...

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Daily Famous Quotations

Today's Famous Quotations:

Martin Luther


It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Richard Phillips Feynman


The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.

American Indian Proverb


Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Madame Guizot


Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.

P. J. O'Rourke


A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

Benny Hill


The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

Joseph T. Chew


Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces.

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'Don't tase me, bro' inspires Clash rocker - News.com.au

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:52:00 GMT
Viral video inspires song by former Clash rocker Mick Jones Jones disgusted by disturbing clip of police tasering student Technology: Read more news and reviews in our tech section ...

Canadian dollar opens at 98.40 US, up 0.10 of a cent - Canada East

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:54:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 98.40 cents US this morning, up 0.10 of a cent from Wednesday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 101.63 cents Cdn, down 0.10 of a cent. Pound ...

AccuQuote.com, a Leading Provider of Term Life Insurance Quotes, Provides Tips for Recession Proofing Insurance (PRWeb)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:09:52 GMT
AccuQuote.com, a leading provider of term life insurance quotes to people across the United States, recommends several tips to ensure people don't go uninsured. Tips include advice on how to keep your term life insurance, health insurance and disability insurance costs down. (PRWeb Apr 23, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb871164.htm

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