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Gary Sinise


Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

Ovid


Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Blade


Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct

Fridjof Nansen


If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

P.T. Barnum


Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman

Helen Hayes


When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.

Don Marquis


Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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Serbia Democrats plan to privatise or protest (AlertNet)

Sun, 18 May 2008 18:30:44 GMT
Source: Reuters (Recasts, adds quotes) By Simon Shuster KIEV, May 18 (Reuters) - Serbia's Democratic Party will speed privatisations if it manages to form the country's next government and plans mass street ...

Upcoming Events - PaddockTalk

Sun, 18 May 2008 23:43:00 GMT
· Indy 500: Hideki Mutoh IRL IndyCar 'Bump' Day Practice Recap - Shakedown (May 18, 2008) · Indy 500: Vision IRL IndyCar 'Bump' Day Qualifying Recap - Foyt Bumps In, Then Crashes ...

Pierce leads Boston to thrilling win over Cleveland (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:28:30 GMT
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Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:

Will Rogers


So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Buddha


You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Saki


Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Robin Morgan


Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

Thomas Jefferson


We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Michael Horton


Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

R. Buckminster Fuller


A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....

Richard Buckminster Fuller


God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.

E. Joseph Crossman


Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

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The Most Lucrative Places - Kommersant

Sun, 18 May 2008 23:07:00 GMT
Vladimir Evtushenkov (AFK Sistema), officially the richest person in Russia, beats his nearest rival by a mere $44.5 million In the new rating, we decided to include all Russian ...

92nd INDIANAPOLIS 500 THIRD DAY QUALIFYING QUOTES (The Auto Channel)

Sun, 18 May 2008 16:57:37 GMT
GRAHAM RAHAL (#06 Hole in the Wall Camps Dallara/Honda/Firestone): (About his qualifying run): “It is nice to get in. Obviously, I feel bad about my comments last week. This team is certainly known for its preparation, and we showed it today. We’ve had a good car so far.

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John Kenneth Galbraith


Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

W. Somerset Maugham


It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

Golda Meir


Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Rudyard Kipling


More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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92nd INDIANAPOLIS 500 THIRD DAY QUALIFYING QUOTES (The Auto Channel)

Sun, 18 May 2008 16:57:37 GMT
GRAHAM RAHAL (#06 Hole in the Wall Camps Dallara/Honda/Firestone): (About his qualifying run): “It is nice to get in. Obviously, I feel bad about my comments last week. This team is certainly known for its preparation, and we showed it today. We’ve had a good car so far.

Imps of frustration: Frenzied, frenetic and frantic - Beaufort Gazette

Sun, 18 May 2008 03:26:00 GMT
We all know of the Seven Deadly Sins. As listed by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) they are Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Anger and Sloth. Then there are the Four ...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.294 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:26:05 GMT
The Canadian Press May 14, 2008 - 12:57 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.294 oz., $556 kg.; Tuesday $17.575 oz., $565.04 kg.

Pearls of Wisdom - Egypt Today

Sun, 18 May 2008 10:07:00 GMT
It ’s hard not to feel at times that philosophy may be losing some of its ancient shine in the face of reality television, trashy detective novels (a favorite guilty pleasure, I ...

Israel, Palestine discuss peace in private -Rice (AlertNet)

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:30:54 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, background) WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are privately discussing a peace agreement and the talks should intensify in the next several months, U.S ...

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Vulgate


Behold the man.
(Ecce Homo)

Author Unknown


Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Ronald Reagan


The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.

Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things


Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Richard Adams, _Watership Down_


A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

Tommy Manville


She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus


No man is wise enough by himself.

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Garbage - Digging through it for some notable quotes (The Gleaner)

Sun, 18 May 2008 05:02:29 GMT
Scavenging notable newspaper quotes from decades-long city and county debates over garbage -- and challenging you to match them to the various city and county public officials who have engaged the issue since the early 1970s:

Nationals report: Notes, quotes - CBS Sportsline

Sat, 17 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT
--1B Dmitri Young returned to the lineup after missing more than a month with a sprained lower back, going 1-for-4. Young will likely be the designated hitter through the team's ...

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Jessamyn West


A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Percy Bysshe Shelley


Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.

Chinese proverb


I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.

Julian the Apostate


The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."

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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.588 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:54:10 GMT
The Canadian Press May 15, 2008 - 1:44 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.588 oz., $565.45 kg.; Wednesday $17.294 oz., $556 kg.

Easier grain import norms likely - Business Standard

Sat, 17 May 2008 18:37:00 GMT
The oversight committee on the strategic grain reserve being developed by India will not haul up state trading PSUs like MMTC, STC or PEC for price fluctuations after they finalise ...

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Chauncey Depew


I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Alice Walker


The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.


Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

William Blake


To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

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USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - May 16 (INO News)

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:07:55 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Fri, May 16, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

Easley wants $1 million for N.C. Freedom Monument (WRAL.com Raleigh)

Sun, 18 May 2008 11:03:52 GMT
Gov. Mike Easley has included $1 million in his proposed budget for the N.C. Freedom Monument, a project designed to honor the black experience in North Carolina.

Pearls of Wisdom - Egypt Today

Sun, 18 May 2008 10:07:00 GMT
It ’s hard not to feel at times that philosophy may be losing some of its ancient shine in the face of reality television, trashy detective novels (a favorite guilty pleasure, I ...

All-Star: Dodge teams Showdown quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sun, 18 May 2008 04:12:51 GMT
"All the guys on the Mobil 1 Dodge did a great job for me. They put together a good car that is real close to our Coca-Cola 600 car. We're real happy that we made it through the Showdown. One mistake by me early in the run put us back and I had to fight my way back to the front.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:21 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

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