Wednesday, October 01, 2008

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Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)


Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Lyndon B. Johnson


I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Anna Louise Strong


To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.


It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Alfred Edward Perlman


After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

Turkish proverb


If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It


At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." You can love completely without complete understanding.

Carl Jung


Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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Quotations by Paul Newman - Associated Press

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:11:00 GMT
"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see ...

Politicians trying to earn trust during election season - KUSA-TV

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:52:00 GMT
DENVER - You hear it on the street: "I just don't trust anybody." "They say one thing and do another." "I've never had much confidence in either Republicans or Democrats." All ...

Writing on the wall - Jamaica Gleaner

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:17:00 GMT
This is the first thing that one notices at the office of JNBS community banking division offices at Duke Street, Kingston, a wall with quotations. "It is a support mechanism ...

SOKO Fitness & Spa Group, Inc. Acquires 51% of Shenyang Letian Yoga ... - Yahoo Finance

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:40:00 GMT
HARBIN, China, Oct. 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harbin Mege Union Beauty Management Ltd., wholly owned by SOKO Fitness & Spa Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOKF - News ...

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Lawana Blackwell


If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf


He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Sarah N. Cleghorn


The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so They who do survive.

Cornelius Tacitus


He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.

George Bernard Shaw


Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1


Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating


To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

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British Ambassador to Kabul 'says Afghanistan mission is doomed' - Daily Telegraph

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:15:00 GMT
The British Ambassador to Kabul has been drawn into an embarrassing row after a French newspaper published quotes purporting to come from a diplomatic cable that claimed he said ...

The Wrath Of America Ferrera - Defamer.com

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:01:00 GMT
Ms. Betty Suarez herself AKA America Ferrera continued to haunt and torment her Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants co-star Blake Lively during a Gossip Girl shoot in Times Square on ...

SOKO Fitness & Spa Group, Inc. Acquires 51% of Shenyang Letian Yoga ... - Yahoo Finance

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:40:00 GMT
HARBIN, China, Oct. 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harbin Mege Union Beauty Management Ltd., wholly owned by SOKO Fitness & Spa Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOKF - News ...

Canadian dollar is trading 0.16 of a cent ahead to 94.13 cents US at ... - Canada East

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:33:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 94.13 cents US, up 0.16 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar was trading at 106.24 cents Cdn, down 0.18 of a cent. Pound sterling was at ...

Magowan bids farewell to the team he loves - San Francisco Gate

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:18:00 GMT
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 The moving crew has cleaned out Peter Magowan's office, leaving only a telephone on the floor. It's Tuesday morning, and there are boxes everywhere ...

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Sri Madhava


Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Vladimir Nabokov


Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Antisthenes


Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Daniel Defoe


Pride the first peer and president of hell.

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At he begins life as a Clipper, Baron Davis talks about the Warriors - Los Angeles Times

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:15:00 GMT
Baron Davis, being an intuitive kind of guy, knew if there was one Warriors-related question, well, surely another was about to follow close behind on Tuesday. He looked at his wrist. Good one. That got the point across on opening day of Clippers ...

Khamenei: Iran won't let Palestinians be alone - International Herald Tribune

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:29:00 GMT
TEHRAN, Iran : Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran will stand beside the Hamas government in Gaza and that Israel is weakening and on the path to eventual destruction. According to state TV, Khamenei called Hamas' prime minister in ...