Monday, December 15, 2008

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Theodore Roosevelt


The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Michael Kamen


We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million or 15 million. You just don't see us.

Adam Smith


On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

Thomas Jefferson


When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred.

Dylan Thomas


Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Edward Morgan Forster


They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important.

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Harry S Truman


If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Barbara Sher


Isolation is a dream killer.

Samuel Johnson


An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Miguel de Cervantes


The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942


Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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Nikkei set to ease after jump, eyes on yen moves - Forbes

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Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:20:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 81.19 cents US, up 1.27 cents on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 123.17 cents Canadian, down 1.95 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.8844, up ...

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James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Napolean Hill


The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

Anon.


Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Shirley Temple


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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George Gurdjieff


Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Aeschylus


I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Bradley Miller


Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Teena Booth


If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Robert Pirsig


Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Al Rogers


In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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