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Steven Wright


Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Charles Robert Darwin


If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Franklin D. Roosevelt


The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Novalis


There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Henry Ford


People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.

Jim Rohn


Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Robert A. Heinlein


How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Plato


Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Jonathan Swift


Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

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Wrap-up of entertainment quotes (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:18:55 GMT
"I wanted to be in a good relationship. Those good relationships that are strong and substantive never happened for me, and that prolonged my indecisiveness." — Diane Keaton, on waiting to be a mother. The Oscar-winning actress, whose past romantic partners include Woody Allen, adopted daughter Dexter, now 12, and son Duke, 7.

AZZ incorporated Reports Year-To-Date and Third Quarter Results of ...

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:05:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - We are encouraged about the strength of our quotations both for the domestic and international markets and believe there are opportunities for increased bookings in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. The leverage gained from improved volumes and ...

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William Shakespeare


When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

Josh Billings


Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early.

John Dryden


Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Winston Churchill


We shape our buildings and they shape us.

Alexander Pope


A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Peter Alcantara


The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

George Washington


There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2


2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Gustave Flaubert


Perfection is the enemy of the good.

Louise Erdrich


In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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The down-payment-poor are about to get squeezed

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:09:00 GMT
Baltimore Sun - Jeff Lipes, president of Family Choice Mortgage in Wethersfield, Conn., said the new emphasis on higher FICO scores and larger down payments could greatly complicate rate quotations. "To get any sort of quote, you're going to need to know your FICO ...

Staring

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:46:00 +0000
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. - James Grover Thurber
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. - Unknown
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up ...]

3 Boat Quotes

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:30:00 +0000
We are living in a day of self-seeking and irresponsibility, even in Christian circles. Few indeed are the Christian believers who have truly laid their all on the altar for Christ. Few are the spiritual leaders who truly put God FIRST . Rather they think first, albeit subconsciously, of their positions, popularity, salaries and the ...]

6 Quotes about Speeches

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:10:00 +0000
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the ...]

The down-payment-poor are about to get squeezed

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:09:00 GMT
Baltimore Sun - Jeff Lipes, president of Family Choice Mortgage in Wethersfield, Conn., said the new emphasis on higher FICO scores and larger down payments could greatly complicate rate quotations. "To get any sort of quote, you're going to need to know your FICO ...

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Richard Bach


Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2


Beware the ides of March.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Samuel Johnson


An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Barbara Sher


Isolation is a dream killer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

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