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Roosevelt, Eleanor


Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

Thomas a Kempis


The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

G. C. Lichtenberg


Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.

Wendell Berry


To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Michael Landon


Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows.

Walter Savage Landor


We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Phyllis Bottome


There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Edgar Allan Poe


Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Miguel de Cervantes


God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Heraclitus of Ephesus


You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Laertius Diogenes


He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Alexander Pope


A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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Canadian dollar closed at 77.31 cents US, down 2.52 cents - Canada East

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:14:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed 2.52 cents lower at 77.31 cents US on Thursday. The U.S. dollar stood at 129.35 cents Canadian, up 4.09 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.9078 ...

(Adds quotes, details on arms programs, background, byline) - Reuters

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:17:00 GMT
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are recommending that President-elect Barack Obama boost overall defense spending for at ...

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Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson


Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Will Rogers


The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

William Strong


The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

Jerry Maguire


Rod It's a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it's a family motto. Now are you ready Just checking to make sure you're ready here it is - show me the money. OHHH SHOW ME THE MONEY Doesn't it make you feel good just to say that, Jerry Say it with me one time brother

Homer, The Iliad


He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

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Ron's Bio - Bleacherreport.com

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:24:00 GMT
If there was ever a man who lived to shake up the foundation on "perfection," it is the enigma known as Ron Johnson. For the past two years, Johnson has been rocking the nation ...

C-form last date extended - Tribune

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:17:00 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 ...

Economic Prognosis - Kommersant

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:24:00 GMT
The fall of the Russian stock market can be easily rendered the key economic event of July. On July 18 the Russian Trading System – RTS – slashed by 3.96% - to 2135.38 points ...

The Modern Wit - Popmatters.com

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:24:00 GMT
The dewy young actress and animal-rights activist Alicia Silverstone, commenting on the movie that made her famous, apparently once said, “I think that the film Clueless was very ...

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John von Neumann, on being phoned at 10 a.m.


You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

Coleman Young


Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Amos Bronson Alcott


Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.

Judith Viorst


But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

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Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:17:00 GMT
LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - European stocks fell to a 5-1/2-year closing low on Wednesday, led down by banks and commodities on concerns over a deep recession, while profit worries ...

Barack Obama: The symbol - Midwest Voices

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:19:00 GMT
Every time a speaker mentioned Barack Obama 's name the crowd of educators applauded at the National Association for Multicultural Education convention last week in New Orleans ...

Cullen releases grim Treasury figures - Stuff

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:57:00 GMT
FALSE HOPE: Finance Minister Michael Cullen says the bad economic news means it is no time for 'risky and reckless' promises' or additional tax cuts. Treasury has painted a very ...

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David Letterman


Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

Douglas MacArthur


There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Harold Fricklestein


A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


When Rick told me he was having trouble with his wife, I had to laugh. Not because of what he said, but because of a joke I thought of. I told him the joke, but he didn't laugh very much. Some friend HE is.

Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html


The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.

Rabindranath Tagore


We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Anon.


An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

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Cullen releases grim Treasury figures - Stuff

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:57:00 GMT
FALSE HOPE: Finance Minister Michael Cullen says the bad economic news means it is no time for 'risky and reckless' promises' or additional tax cuts. Treasury has painted a very ...

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 ...

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