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J. D. Salinger


You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Manton


Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

Omar Khayym


I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.

H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You


Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

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UK seeking dictator rule in Afghanistan - Presstv

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Sherard is quoted as saying that the American strategy in Afghanistan 'is bound to fail'. British envoy to Kabul suggests that the best solution for Afghanistan would be to install ...

Valentino names 2 new designers - WHEC TV-10

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:18:00 GMT
(AP) PARIS - Italian fashion house Valentino said on Saturday it had named its in-house accessories designers as joint creative directors of the brand, replacing Alessandra ...

Quote Interesting: Newspapers - Daily Telegraph

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:55:00 GMT
I am unable to understand how a man of honour could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice ...

Afghan campaign 'not doomed' - Guardian Unlimited

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:25:00 GMT
The Government has denied a claim that it believes the military campaign in Afghanistan is doomed to failure. The denial came after a French newspaper quoted a report that London's ...

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Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)


There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Sara Teasdale


No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.

Jean Jacques Rousseau


Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war

Sir Winston Churchill


Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

Robert Green Ingersoll


The triumph of justice is the only peace.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"


If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire


Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory


The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

Niccolo Machiavelli


Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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Quote Interesting: Newspapers - Daily Telegraph

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:55:00 GMT
I am unable to understand how a man of honour could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Being a newspaper columnist ...

Review: Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher - Daily Telegraph

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:55:00 GMT
As this novella is set in a TB sanatorium, readers may look for debts to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. The sensibility of Scarred Hearts , however, belongs to another world: Bukovina, Polish Galicia, and German-speaking Prague. For all Max Blecher's ...

The technical quotations of eligible bidders were opened Sep 29. - Economic Times

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:59:00 GMT
Three companies - mjunction, Rothschild and Sai Information System - had been shortlisted as eligible bidders out of the four to have submitted bids for selection as the agency to oversee the e-auction of spectrum allocation for third generation (3G ...

Pope John Paul II's compassion for Jews on display at Skirball - Los Angeles Times

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:11:00 GMT
As a young boy in Poland before World War II, Karol Jozef Wojtyla possessed an uncommon warmth for an often reviled group of outsiders -- Jews. Like most others in his hometown, Wojtyla was Catholic. But he counted Jewish children among his friends ...

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