Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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Professor Irwin Corey


If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Jeff Warner


We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

Thomas Jefferson


Every man has two countries his own and France.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.

Jeremy Taylor


Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

George Santayana


Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Socrates


Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840


I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Frederick Douglas


Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Mark Twain


A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

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Dozens of groups grateful for Kids Fund grants - Wisconsin State Journal

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:53:00 GMT
Board members from The Capital Times Kids Fund received thanks from members of scores of groups who received grants within the past year to help them help kids in the Dane County ...

Wednesday Butch Davis Quotes - North carolina State Scout

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:35:00 GMT
“All of these games, when you get to the month of November, take on significant importance, and certainly the N.C. State game takes on even more importance because of the nature ...

Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:



Thomas Carlyle


Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Bertrand Russell


If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.

John Maynard Keynes


The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

William Shakespeare


Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Nicholson


Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

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C-form last date extended - Tribune

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:18:00 GMT
In a major relief to thousands of traders of the state, the Punjab government has decided to extend the last date for the submission of C-forms up to March 31, 2009. The last date ...

Dozens of groups grateful for Kids Fund grants - Wisconsin State Journal

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:53:00 GMT
Board members from The Capital Times Kids Fund received thanks from members of scores of groups who received grants within the past year to help them help kids in the Dane County ...

(Adds quotes, reaction) - Reuters

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:51:00 GMT
OTTAWA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Canada pledged new aid to its ailing auto sector on Wednesday and, in an apparent shift, it also said it would work toward a North America-wide cap-and ...

The truth about government - Statesman Journal

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:27:00 GMT
The Democrats will be running the White House, the House and the Senate soon. Before they make drastic changes, they may want to consider some interesting quotations on government ...

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Rainer Maria Rilke


This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.


For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Albert Einstein


I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

Proverbs 2416a Bible


For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

Ernest Haycox


No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next.

William Orville Douglas


The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

Wilson Mizner


Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'

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Africa Daily Press Briefing - Scoop

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:00 GMT
MR. MCCORMACK: I think DOD probably has a better handle on that. I’ve seen a lot of quotations from people related to the Fifth Fleet. They’re monitoring the situation very ...

C-form last date extended - Tribune

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:18:00 GMT
In a major relief to thousands of traders of the state, the Punjab government has decided to extend the last date for the submission of C-forms up to March 31, 2009. The last date ...

Britain's car theft black spots - Daily Telegraph

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:38:00 GMT
The price comparison site analysed information from 10m insurance quotations made over the past 10 months. It showed that motorists in the East Sussex village of Winchelsea are ...

The truth about government - Statesman Journal

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:27:00 GMT
The Democrats will be running the White House, the House and the Senate soon. Before they make drastic changes, they may want to consider some interesting quotations on government ...

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Danish proverb


Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher


I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Miguel de Cervantes


You may as well expect pears from an elm.

Marilyn Manson


Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.

Sir Philip Sidney


Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Hesiod


Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Harriet Martineau


We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Henry David Thoreau


We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:27:00 GMT
"I wouldn't wish what I'm going through on anyone, my worst enemy. I haven't had a night's sleep for almost four months.'' -- Republican Sen. Ted Stevens after losing the Senate ...

All Blacks cop it in vitriolic Irish column - Stuff

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:56:00 GMT
The All Blacks have been ''welcomed'' to Ireland as an unpopular team whose perennial World Cup failures puts a grin on the rugby world's face. The Irish Independent's Vincent ...

Put 'Retreat from Moscow' on your weekend to-do list - HometownAnnapolis.com

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:35:00 GMT
References to history and quotes from classic poems are woven into "The Retreat from Moscow," a thought-provoking, emotional tale about divorce. Watch as playwright William ...