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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991


My home is not a place, it is people.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984


You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.

Charlie Finley


Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Assyrian Proverb


Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Socrates


Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Thomas Huxley


The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Clive Staples Lewis


We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Mark Twain


Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination

Robert Anson Heinlein


Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Ernest Hemingway


I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason


The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999


In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

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New Bible has 'green' theme - Star-Press

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:07:00 GMT
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Icelandic crown, money market trade dries up - dealers - Guardian Unlimited

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:40:00 GMT
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