Thursday, January 01, 2009

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James Thurber


Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Josef Stalin


Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."

Peretz Smolenskin


There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein


Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Brooks Atkinson


Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.

John Maynard Keynes


The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Sir Arthur Eddington


We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo It is our own.

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Reviews: Preschool to Grade 4 - School Library Journal

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:17:00 GMT
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian . The Little Matchstick Girl . ISBN 978-1-60537-008-8 . THE BROTHERS GRIMM . Little Red Riding Hood . ISBN 978-1-60537-007-1 . ea vol: retold & illus. by Debbie Lavreys. unpaged. Clavis . 2008. Tr $16.95. LC number ...

Wall Street closes book on dismal year - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:14:00 GMT
NEW YORK - The last trading day of 2008 on Wall Street provided a merciful end to an abysmal year - the worst since the Great Depression, wiping out $6.9 trillion in stock market wealth. Six years of stock gains disappeared as the economy crumbled ...

Palin's Daughter Gives Birth to Son - AOL

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT
Bristol Palin, 18, gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Saturday, People magazine reported online. He weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces. Colleen Jones, the sister of Bristol's grandmother, told the magazine that "the baby is fine and Bristol is ...

New Year quotes - Tehran Times

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:50:00 GMT
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. G. K. Chesterton Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Hal Borland The ...

where to turn for refuge - Lucianne.com

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:57:00 GMT
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." These are quotations from Gen. William T. Sherman. He ...