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Ronald Reagan


Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

Rob Brown


If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Blessing Irish


At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

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Seoul shares turn higher after Australia rate cut - Forbes

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:24:00 GMT
SEOUL, Oct 7 (Reuters) - South Korean stocks turned higher on Tuesday afternoon from earlier steep losses after Australia's central bank slashed the country's interest rates by a ...

Canadian dollar closed at 90.98 cents US, down 1.50 cents - Canada East

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:13:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed down 1.50 cents to 90.98 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 109.92 cents Canadian, up 1.77 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.9173 ...

Rabbi asks pope, synod leaders to speak out to defend Israel - Catholic News

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:37:00 GMT
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Israeli Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi of Haifa, asked Pope Benedict XVI and top Catholic leaders to continue learning to appreciate the Jewish ...

The boil on Boylston Street - Boston Globe

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:23:00 GMT
About two weeks ago, I was at the Hynes Convention Center and ate supper across Boylston Street. As I emerged from the restaurant, a monstrous, shadowy cliff rose up in front of me ...

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Albert Camus


I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

Blessing Irish


May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Geoffrey Neighor


I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Golda Meir


To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Bobby Unser


Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Stephen Leacock


It may be that those who do most, dream most.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche


One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Richard Baxter


Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

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Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32:00 GMT
On Monday, the interbank hryvnia rate fell by 28 kopecks to 5.2800 UAH/USD, after an increase on Friday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading ...

Monday at 8.30pm - ONE News

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:41:00 GMT
'No greater honour will ever be bestowed upon an officer, than when they are entrusted with an investigation into the death of a human being.' Four young lives, focused on justice ...

Death and Dying - Chicago Tribune

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:47:00 GMT
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ Spokeswoman for Paul Newman says the screen legend has died at age 83 after battling cancer. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ A spokeswoman for screen legend Paul ...

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Dale Carnegie


If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Battaille


[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Claude Swanson


When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.

Benjamin Disraeli


Success is the child of audacity.

Robert Charles Benchley


A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew'

Annie Sullivan


Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Anne Lamott


Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up.

Sir Francis Bacon


Silence is the virtue of fools.

Albert P. Ryder


Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

Ambrose Bierce


Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Norman MacEwan


Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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International stock market quotations - Monsters and Critics

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:32:00 GMT
5 September 4 September difference New York Dow Jones 11,146.71 11,188.23 (- 41.52) New York NASDAQ Comp. 2,241.06 2,259.04 (- 17.98) Tokyo Nikkei 12,212.23 12,557.66 (- 345.43) Sydney All Ordinaries 4,949.50 5,050.90 (- 101.40) Hongkong Hang Seng 19 ...

Collection offers words to live by - Houston Chronicle

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:54:00 GMT
RALEIGH, N.C. — Mardy Grothe is a connoisseur. Instead of vintage wines, though, the North Raleigh resident spends his days sampling fine ideas. When he sniffs one out in his casks of books and magazines, he swirls it around in his mind, noting the ...

Live From The American Magazine Conference: Quotations From Chairman ... - BusinessWeek

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:00:00 GMT
(That would be Bob Greenberg, Chairman-CEO of ad agency R/GA and something of a seer for marketing and media futures.) “How did Yahoo start looking old and Rupert Murdoch start looking young?” “Consumers have never liked ads as much as agencies ...

Quotations from the news - Baptist Standard

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:57:00 GMT
“I had missed an opportunity ... to clearly assert the following: Nonbelievers have just as great a stake as believers in defending religious liberty. If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief—to ...

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Woodrow Wilson


Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Josh Traeger


The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.

Leo Tolstoy


Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Frank Zappa


Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt


We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson


Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

John Bay


Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Richard Milhous Nixon


This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)

William Shakespeare


Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

Johann von Goethe


Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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Obama, Dems go after McCain's honor - Salon

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:16:00 GMT
Barack Obama's campaign is taking the gloves off and hitting John McCain where -- Democratic strategists hope -- it hurts. It's using the recent, and lengthy, record of the McCain ...

Death and Dying - Chicago Tribune

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:47:00 GMT
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ Spokeswoman for Paul Newman says the screen legend has died at age 83 after battling cancer. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ A spokeswoman for screen legend Paul ...

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