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Marquis de Sade


There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)


Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Elbert Hubbard


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

William Shakespeare


When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence So sweet is zealous contemplation.

Woody Allen


More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Benjamin Disraeli


Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Cheyenne Proverb


A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

Thomas Peters


Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Will Rogers


I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Lao Tzu


While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

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Obama's Fox Trot (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:52:23 GMT
Election '08: Barack Obama's interview on "Fox News Sunday" showed a liberal uncomfortable with the truth. He is often compared to JFK, a leader who made tough choices. But Obama turns out to be a profile in porridge.

F1: Spain Sunday quotes: McLaren (autosport.com)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:41:26 GMT
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Anatole Broyard


There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Ruben Studdard


People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

Blaise Pascal


Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Donald J. Adams


There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

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Upcoming Events - PaddockTalk

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:05:00 GMT
NASCAR slapped Scott Speed with the rulebook twice during Saturday’s Craftsman Truck Series race, the Red Bull driver’s first with Bill Davis Racing. "I definitely got taught a ...

Ombudsman sacks college prexy, 5 employees - The Journal Group Online

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:17:00 GMT
THE president of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics and five others were placed under a six-month preventive suspension in connection with an alleged irregular bidding ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:48:33 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.April 25 April 24 Difference...

Missing document key to $8.4-million City Hall settlement found - Detroit Free Press

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:37:00 GMT
A missing legal document that triggered an $8.4 million deal to hide Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s salacious text messages has been recovered, the Free Press has learned. The contents ...

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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:26 GMT
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Today's Famous Quotations:

Claudianus


Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Henry Louis Mencken


Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

Ken Venturi


1. Never tell everything at once.

Thomas Fuller


Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Kin Hubbard


The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Jose Ortega y Gasset


Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

John Quincy Adams


Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Walt Whitman


I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Paul Aubuchon


He who fails to question is asking for trouble.

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian


Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

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Wort zum Sport: 365 Tage 1. April - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:48:00 GMT
Sollten Sie, geneigte Leserin, geneigter Leser, mit Blick aufs Erscheinungsdatum dieser Kolumne nach einem darin verborgenen Aprilscherz suchen, so sparen Sie sich die Mühe. Da ...

UK drowning in spam tidal wave - CIO.de

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:25:00 GMT
According to the Cisco subsidiary's Internet Security Trends report for 2007, this deluge means that each business inbox now receives between 100 and 1,000 spam emails per day ...

SQL-Injection - Angriff und Abwehr - Heise

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:14:00 GMT
Webshops, News-Boards, Groupware- und Content-Management-Systeme setzen Datenbanken ein, um darin Kundendaten, Artikel und Texte abzulegen. Oft trifft der Besucher solch einer ...

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Victor Hugo


Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Ashley Montagu


I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2


Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.

Robin Green


The Eagle wasn't always the Eagle. The Eagle, before he became the Eagle, was Yucatangee, the Talker. Yucatangee talked and talked. It talked so much it heard only itself. Not the river, not the wind, not even the Wolf. The Raven came and said The Wolf is hungry. If you stop talking, you'll hear him. The wind too. And when you hear the wind, you'll fly. So he stopped talking. And became its nature, the Eagle. The Eagle soared, and its flight said all it needed to say.

Anon.


Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Jean Nathan Miller


The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.

J. Russel Lynes


The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Malcolm Muggeridge


There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Oprah Winfrey


Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

John Adams


Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:23:00 GMT
BEIJING, April 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XFMedia XFML , a leading media group in China, announced that The Investor Journal was launched today. Investor Journal is a new ...

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Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005


No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

Ambrose Bierce


Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26


What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?

Albert Einstein


He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.

Countess Diane


How do they who think they are unhappy differ from they who actually are?

General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson


Never take counsel of your fears.

Warren Bennis


People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Diogenes the Cynic (412 to 323 B.C.)


If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

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Sports Express Acquires Luggage Express and Virtual Bellhop Brands - Yahoo Finance

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:41:00 GMT
"With this acquisition, Sports Express is extremely well-positioned for growth at a time when the industry is primed to expand," said Jon Trevelise, CEO of Sports Express ...

F1: Spain Sunday quotes: Red Bull (autosport.com)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:26 GMT
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MaintenanceNet, Inc.'s Quote-to-Order Module Drives Faster, More ... - Market Wire

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:56:00 GMT
CARLSBAD, CA--(Marketwire - April 28, 2008) - MaintenanceNet, Inc., the leading provider of warranty and contract management services, is helping distributors and their reseller ...

Ombudsman grounds six aeronautics officers (Yehey!)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:20:51 GMT
SIX officials of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics, including its president, were suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman after it found irregularities, including the conduct of two biddings in a single day, in its canvass for the overhaul of an airplane engine in 2005.

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Paul Klee, Creative Credo, 1920


Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Danish proverb


No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.

William Hazlitt


Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

Steven Wright


I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)


Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

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Boris is no buffoon - Guardian Unlimited

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:14:00 GMT
When I went to work for the Spectator as political editor seven years ago, the then editor Boris Johnson would ring me up once a week. The first thing I noticed about these calls was that they ran contrary to Johnson's carefully cultivated public ...

Dollar Forward Rates - Forbes

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:01:00 GMT
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India's inflation fans futures anger - Asia Times

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:17:00 GMT
MUMBAI - India's high inflation rate, hitting three-year highs at more than 7% and coming amid record food grain production, is prompting demands for a ban on the increasing trade in food commodity derivatives. The Wholesale Price Index for food ...

India FIMMDA-REUTERS-MIOCS for 3 years 5.20 pct - Reuters India

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:57:00 GMT
The above dollar rupee swap rates are a simple average of the bid and offer rates quoted by 11 market participants.The floating benchmark used here is the six month USD libor. For participants' names and quotes, please double-click on CRS01 or type ...

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