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The Dhammapada


For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)


Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Elie Wiesel


There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Hortense Calisher


This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

John Ernst Steinbeck


One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

D. H. Lawrence


How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Chinese Proverb


A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

Sydney Harris


When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what'

Alexander Hamilton


Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:39:42 GMT
"They said, 'your children are ours'. We could not even ask a question.'' -- Marie, a 32-year-old member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints whose three boys were taken from the polygamist retreat into state custody.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:53:14 GMT
Frankfurt- Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

Fine silver quotations Monday: $18.881 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:43:29 GMT
The Canadian Press April 14, 2008 - 12:32 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $18.881 oz., $607.02 kg.; Friday $18.773 oz., $603.55 kg.

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