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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


One thing about my Aunt Nadie She was gruff on the outside, but if you ever needed something, like a spanking or a scolding, she'd give it to you.

Cicero


If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

L. Thomas Holdcroft


The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.

George Bernard Shaw


There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

Count Oxenstierna, letter to his son, 1648


An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis?
Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?

William Shakespeare


Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

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Quotes of wisdom spice up baseball (The Grand Rapids Press)

Sun, 04 May 2008 04:29:06 GMT
A former major league player gives an "inside" look at the game. Q: Why does it seem like baseball players give the most colorful quotes? -- K. Duffy, Minneapolis, Minn.

Economic Prognosis - Kommersant

Sun, 04 May 2008 16:36:00 GMT
The global stock market crisis was the main event in January which also affected Russia. On January 21, Russia’s benchmark RTS , which surged above 2,300 points in mid-January ...

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Sir John Vanbrugh


Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Bradley Miller


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

Marcus Valerius Martialis


There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Tallulah Bankhead


It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

Groucho Marx


I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedrus


Friends have all things in common.

Johann von Goethe


To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Charles Caleb Colton


Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Oren Arnold


Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

Craig Claiborne


For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

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Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:35:00 GMT
"I know it's tough times, and I know you're having to pay more at the fuel pump than you want. But this economy is going to come on. I'm confident it will.'' -- President Bush ...

Indy 500: IRL IndyCar Rookie Orientation Practice - Day One Driver ... - PaddockTalk

Sun, 04 May 2008 23:53:00 GMT
JAY HOWARD (No. 24 Roth Racing): “It went good. We started off a little bit later than everyone else. Just wanted to take our time. We've got a full month, so there's no rush for ...

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Charles Baudelaire


It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight


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

Kelly Marshall


It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.

Barbara Sher


Isolation is a dream killer.

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ROOFING SHEET PRICE FOLLOWS CEMENT TREND IN UZBEKISTAN (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance)

Mon, 05 May 2008 04:09:21 GMT
Consumer Goods   Uzbekistan's building industry finds the average weighted exchange quotes for Portland cement without additives PC 400 D-0, the main resources used in the production of roofing sheets, continues to decline.

Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:35:00 GMT
"I know it's tough times, and I know you're having to pay more at the fuel pump than you want. But this economy is going to come on. I'm confident it will.'' -- President Bush ...

JFK aide Ted Sorensen tells his story - Fosters Daily Democrat

Mon, 05 May 2008 07:09:00 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) — As he watched the breach and then the break between Sen. Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former White House speechwriter Ted Sorensen was reminded, as ...

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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?

John Maynard Keynes


Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Dean Gordon Brown


Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

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Morgan Stanley holds 3.07 percent stake in EDP - Forbes

Mon, 05 May 2008 07:02:00 GMT
LISBON (Thomson Financial) - EDP - Energias de Portugal, SA said Morgan Stanley has declared a 2.15 percent stake in the energy group's share capital and voting rights. In a ...

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Mon, 05 May 2008 03:35:00 GMT
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Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.


Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Victor Hugo


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

George Seaton Bowes


The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Lao Tzu


It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Oprah Winfrey


Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

William James


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

Ronald Reagan


Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

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Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.544 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:43:29 GMT
The Canadian Press May 2, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.544 oz., $564.04 kg.; Thursday $17.097 oz., $549.67 kg.

Identity crisis - Boston Globe

Mon, 05 May 2008 04:03:00 GMT
The Internet has come to dominate the way people keep in touch and share information. It has also fractured digital life - turning people into a piecemeal collection of user names ...

Economic Prognosis - Kommersant

Sun, 04 May 2008 16:36:00 GMT
The global stock market crisis was the main event in January which also affected Russia. On January 21, Russia’s benchmark RTS , which surged above 2,300 points in mid-January ...

OUTLOOK Outlook of US economic indicators to be released in the coming ... - Forbes

Mon, 05 May 2008 04:10:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2007. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar ...

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St. Catherine of Sienna


If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.

Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950


If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Carl Jung


The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Clarence Darrow


I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Tao Te Ching


Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

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Doonesbury.com Book Gathers Iraq War-Related Quotes (Editor & Publisher)

Sat, 03 May 2008 17:03:59 GMT
NEW YORK A book called "Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes" will be released this August by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Introducing Tourist (Torontoist)

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:31:10 GMT
Summer, we've heard, is supposed to be the time for travelling the world, seeing new sights, accumulating new experiences, and exploring new places. According to the first Google result for "travel quotations" (the extent of our research), Helen Keller said that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

Doonesbury.com Book Gathers Iraq War-Related Quotes (Editor & Publisher)

Sat, 03 May 2008 17:03:59 GMT
NEW YORK A book called "Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes" will be released this August by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:47:26 GMT
"I know it's tough times, and I know you're having to pay more at the fuel pump than you want. But this economy is going to come on. I'm confident it will.'' -- President Bush, speaking at a technology plant in a St. Louis suburb.

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