Sunday, November 23, 2008

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Albert Einstein


God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

Gaius Petronius


What power has law where only money rules.

George Bernard Shaw


Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

Aesop


While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

French Proverb


He who survives will see the outcome.

Dana Hatch


I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.

C. S. Lewis


We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Jim Hightower


Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Angel Blessing


There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

George Gordon Byron


'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Richard Fenyman


What did you ask at school today

Frank Lloyd Wright


Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

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Saint Francis of Assisi


Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Edward Keating


You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

George Shinn


Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel


Hope is only the love of life.

Thomas De Quincey


Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

The Dhammapada


Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Abigail Adams


Great necessities call forth great leaders.

Lawrence Peter Berra


So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.

Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003


The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Captain Lawrence Oates, last words


I am just going outside and may be some time.

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Gordon Ramsay embroiled in affair claims - New Zealand Herald

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:21:00 GMT
Gordon Ramsay has been accused of cheating on his wife by a British tabloid. Photo / Supplied Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is reportedly considering suing a British tabloid over ...

Telling truth: Exhibit headed for Geneva - Beacon News

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:58:00 GMT
GENEVA -- A major traveling exhibition will grace the Geneva History Center when "Americans Who Tell the Truth" comes to town in January. The display, an examination of American ...

Annan: Humanitarian Situation in Zimbabwe 'Intolerable' - Voice of America

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:35:00 GMT
Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan says he will continue to assess a "deteriorating" humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe from outside the country, after Zimbabwean officials ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:45:00 GMT
PERTH, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Oil rose over 2 percent to top $51 a barrel on Monday on improved sentiment about the global economy, following news that New York Federal Reserve ...

Australia shares flat, banks drag market down - Forbes

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:41:00 GMT
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Saint Teresa of Avila


Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Bertrand Russell


Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

W. Somerset Maugham


Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.


I now have no time to be tired.

Kahlil Gibran


Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Mencius


The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.

Unknown


Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson


There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Umberto Eco


The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Heywood Broun


Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

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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Telling truth: Exhibit headed for Geneva - Beacon News

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:58:00 GMT
GENEVA -- A major traveling exhibition will grace the Geneva History Center when "Americans Who Tell the Truth" comes to town in January. The display, an examination of American men and women who have spoken truth to power, will run Jan. 16 to Feb ...

Newspaper does its part to help Hawaii tourism - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:02:00 GMT
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Blunt hooks up with Krasinski - West Online

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:24:00 GMT
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Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

Caleb Carr


So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

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Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:23:00 GMT
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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:02:00 GMT
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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:22:00 GMT
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Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:09:00 GMT
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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:21:00 GMT
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Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:25:00 GMT
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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:23:00 GMT
"If you design everything around one person or one family or a couple of people, it's not going to work forever." — Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, suggesting that Libya plans to move ...