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Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.

Alexander Pope


Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

A. Bronson Alcott


Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon


Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

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One Filmmaker’s Vivid Tales of Fathers and Other Strangers

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:24:00 GMT
New York Times - Anderson honored by scoring a daft travel montage with “He Needs Me,” Olive Oyl’s love song from the 1980 Altman film “Popeye.” But the quotations were submerged so deeply within the film’s visual text that the result seemed not merely ...

Keeping faith with American democracy

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:39:00 GMT
Daily Telegraph - For a secular European liberal, that looks scary - while I was checking the Mencken quotes above, I chanced on another that struck a chord: "The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief ...

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Peter Kropotkin


America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

Jeff Meyer


pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

Benjamin Franklin


Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:19:00 GMT
Earthtimes - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 7,808.69 (-99.72) MDAX9,319.44 (- 243.78) Adidas 49.81 (-0.28) Allianz 142.08 (-2.85 ...

Quotes from the candidates

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:05:00 GMT
Newsday - --"Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. That ...

5 Quotes on Zeal

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:25:00 +0000
People say I’ve had brushes with the law. That’s not true. I’ve had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. - Mark Duffy
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the ...]

CNinsure to Acquire 60% Stake in Insurance Agency

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:59:00 GMT
Forbes - Among other things, the management's quotations contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about ...

Quotations of the day

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:26:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We are not going to give up our right to assemble peacefully. We will not back down until there is a clear solution for the crisis caused by the stolen election." — Salim Lone, a spokesman for opposition chief Raila Odinga in Kenya, vowing to hold ...

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