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Thomas Carlyle


Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books

Susan Sontag


The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3


It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Eric Hoffer


The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

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Mumbai shootings: Reaction in quotes - BBC South-Asia

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:22:00 GMT
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Oscar Wilde


I can resist anything but temptation.

Samuel Ullman


Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762


The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)


Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

French Proverb


He that does not ask will never get a bargain.

Thomas Hobbes


Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country


Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.

James Branch Cabell


The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

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Gazprom sends draft contract on formula-based gas supplies as of 2011 ... - KPNews.com

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:11:00 GMT
The Russian gas monopoly, the Gazprom company, has sent the draft contract on the formula-based gas supplies as of 2011 to the Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company, first ...

Paper View: Drogba plots exit, Spurs eye Downing and Bendtner worships ... - Daily Telegraph

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:24:00 GMT
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Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 123.02 cents Canadian, up 0.52 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C ...

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Bertrand Russell


It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Christopher S. Drew


I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

George Washington


Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary.

Titus Livius


There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

Nigerian Proverb


However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.

Anita Roddick


If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

Graffito


There is no They, Only Us.

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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:27:00 GMT
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Miss Gayborhood can’t speak - Dallas Voice

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:02:00 GMT
Kat Ewing refrains from defending Oak Lawn’s female impersonators — now that the Miss Texas Organization has issued a ‘no drag queens allowed’ ruling LOVE THE HAIR... Ewing ...

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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:22:00 GMT
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Improving Email Communications - Redorbit.com

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:03:00 GMT
In a new article in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian (both of the University of Chicago) study how we use emoticons ...

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Ivan Pavlov


What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage


No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens.

Rose Kennedy


Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them

Sheila Graham


Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Estee Lauder


On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Alfred Hitchcock


We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

Hellen Keller


I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Publilius Syrus


Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.

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Centrica plans 5-yr euro benchmark bond -IFR - Forbes

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:36:00 GMT
LONDON, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Centrica, owner of British Gas, plans to issue a five-year euro benchmark bond, IFR reported on Thursday. Guidance is set at mid-swaps plus 380 to 400 ...

Gazprom sends draft contract on formula-based gas supplies as of 2011 ... - KPNews.com

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:11:00 GMT
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