Thursday, October 09, 2008

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)


This is quite a three-pipe problem.

Henry Drummond


Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Johnson


Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Jane Austen


One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Jewish Proverb


Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

Kahlil Gibran


Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Franz Kafka


Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Thomas a Kempis


Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

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Maddon Has Rays In Deep - Hartford Courant

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:02:00 GMT
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Cliff Floyd , a 16-year major league veteran of six franchises and a pretty fair clubhouse philosopher, didn't need Occam's razor to cut to the chase. "The ...

comments on: Tarver-Dawson Final Press Conference Quotes - East Side Boxing

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:02:00 GMT
looks like dawson has come out of his shell. he's falling right into tarver's plan. he wants dawson to be angry and mad. tarver wants dawson to be aggressive so he can catch dawson ...

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Henry David Thoreau


I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

William Shakspeare, Julius Ceaser


The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

Charles Atlas


Nobody picks on a strong man.

Joshua J. Marine


Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Author Unknown


People who know the least always argue the most.

Victor Hugo


When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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Crude oil prices drop under $85 per barrel - United Press International

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:18:00 GMT
Quotes delayed at least 20 mins. (UPI Photo Files) NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices fell to a new low for the year Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, dropping ...

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NZ guest nights fall in August - SNZ - Forbes

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:30:00 GMT
WELLINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Guest nights in New Zealand short-term commercial accommodation fell 4 percent in August over the same month a year earlier, the third straight ...

Adwatch: Amendment 2 opponents release 2nd Fla. ad - Florida Times-Union

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:41:00 GMT
LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: Amendment 2 opponents could start airing it with their other ad in South Florida as early as this week. SCRIPT: Announcer: "All over Florida people are ...

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Mary Catherine Bateson


No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Kim Hubbard


When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Bertrand Russell


A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Hans Christian Anderson


Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Thomas B. Macaulay


The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

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Millennium deal fails to get numbers - New Zealand Herald

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:57:00 GMT
The owners of just 55 Metropolis apartments in Auckland agreed to a deal proposed by major operator Millennium Hotels and Resorts to run their units. So few owners in the 38-level ...

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 ...

Clarifying The First Amendment Necessary - Tyler Morning Telegraph

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:42:00 GMT
Look, if you want a guaranteed audience that will listen to your crackpot theories, weird observations and uninspired opinions, do what I did -- become a teacher. But first, please ...

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 ...

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Richard Milhous Nixon


Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court

Dante Gabriel Rossetti


The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Arnold Glasgow


One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Nigel


Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.

Alain de Lille


Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Robert Browning


Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Socrates


If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Jane Austen


One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Roger Babson


Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

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Grain quotes, High Plains & Gulf - Houston Chronicle

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:17:00 GMT
— Texas High Plains cash grain markets closed 18 cents to 20 cents higher on grain sorghum, unchanged on wheat, 16 cents higher on soybeans and mostly 10 cents to 11 cents higher ...

river quotes following Corsica shakedown - Rally-Live

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:23:00 GMT
O nly days after the Spanish round of the World Rally Championship, the contenders reunite again in Corsica to contest the Rallye de France-Tour de Corse, the famous "rally of 10 ...