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Sydney Smith


There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.

Fran Lebowitz


I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Dexter Scott King


My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'

Alan John Percivale Taylor


There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

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Art Basel Miami Beach - New York Times

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:25:00 GMT
At Art Basel Miami Beach, a sprawling art fair that runs through Sunday, a wall-to-wall text piece by Barbara Kruger spells out two quotations. One from Goethe observes, “We are ...

Poor storage threatens food security - Tribune

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:52:00 GMT
The Centre, it is learnt, has rejected the request of the Punjab government to allow it to export surplus wheat stock to Pakistan and Afghanistan to provide storage space for paddy ...

"We're a hoax" admit Facebook party crashers - Technology.timesonline

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:04:00 GMT
They claimed to have their own bus, gatecrashed parties across Britain, and engaged in extravagant orgies on washing machines. But now the Facebook Republican Army, a gang of ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:15:00 GMT
"For us, if we were denied the funds, it certainly would push us in that direction (toward bankruptcy) and possibly, even worse, to liquidation." — Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli on ...

Need to understand 1988 judicial crisis Understanding 1988 crisis ... - New Straits Times

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:01:00 GMT
ways to strengthen the position of the executive," he recalled. "But, sometimes, when laws were passed by Parliament, the accusation was that judges did not interpret according to ...

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Stanley Kubrick


A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Henry Ford


There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Stanislaw Lec


Value your words. Each one may be the last.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"


#3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde


The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Gloria Steinem


Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.


Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Camille Paglia


Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Luigi Barzini


Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Vince Lombardi


Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing.

Theodore Parker


Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

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Economic Prognosis - Kommersant

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:39:00 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 ...

Erick Blasco - Bleacherreport.com

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:46:00 GMT
Joined over 2 years ago Erick Blasco is a 21-year-old college student attending Brooklyn College on a full scholarship. He is majoring in TV/Radio and minoring in English with the ...

Jack Black Craps Ping Pong Balls for VGA - Kotaku.com

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:55:00 GMT
Jack Black's hosting Spike's 2008 "Video Game Awards" (their quotes, not mine). Here are a couple promos goofing on mo-cap. Being clever works. Poop jokes always work. And ping ...

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Dumb & Dumber


Lloyd When I met Mary, I got that old fashioned romantic feeling, where I'd do anything to bone her.

John Cleese


If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that'

Miguel de Cervantes


Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

John Locke


Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

Author Unknown


The shortest answer is the doing the thing.

Elbert Hubbard


Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.

Anon.


That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown

Virginia


If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Sophocles, Ajax


Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Otto von Bismark


Politics is no exact science.

Charles De Gaulle


It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese.

William James


The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

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Vintage O'Malley - lifting famous quotations - HometownAnnapolis.com

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:26:00 GMT
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Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:43:00 GMT
- White House says talks with Democratic congressional leadership continue on aid for U.S. automakers of between $15 billion and $17 billion 'What's most important is that everyone ...

Final episode - Monday at 8.30pm - ONE News

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:40:00 GMT
A not-so-neighbourly dogfight leads to the unearthing of a buried secret; Matt discovers what happened to his mother who disappeared sixteen years ago; and it's Homicide's toughest ...

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