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Terence


I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

Euripides, Aeolus


Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

E. H. Chapin


Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Emile Coue


When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Rainer Maria Rilke


If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Greg Proops


I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Ronald Reagan


My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

Marlon Brando


All I want to be is normally insane.

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Harmful Quotes

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:57:00 +0000
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. - Seneca
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all ...]

Roger Clemens Sues Former MLB Trainer for Defamation Over Steroid Comments (Law.com)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:09:12 GMT
Roger Clemens beat Brian McNamee to court, filing a defamation suit against the former major league baseball trainer who claimed to have injected him with performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens filed the suit Sunday night in Harris County District Court in Texas, listing 15 alleged statements McNamee made to baseball drug investigator George Mitchell. The suit quotes McNamee as saying he was ...

Fine silver quotations Monday: $15.785 ounce

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:59:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $15.785 oz., $507.49 kg.; Friday $15.795 oz., $507.81 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You may experience problems accessing content. Images ...

International stock market quotations

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:23:00 GMT
Earthtimes - Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets. 7 January6 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,829.8512,800.18(+29.67) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,507.37 2,504.65(+ 2.72) TokyoNikkei14,500.5514,691.41(- 190.86 ...

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Titus Livius


Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Homer, The Iliad


A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Lawrence Peter Berra


It's like deja vu all over again.

W. C. Fields


I never vote for anyone I always vote against.

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3 Quotes on Utilization

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:00 +0000
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the ...]

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 ...]

Quotes from the Democrats' debate (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:52:09 GMT
Some quotes from the Democrats' debate Saturday in Manchester, N.H. Organizers excluded Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel. --- BARACK OBAMA

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Edith Newbold Jones Wharton


If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Horace


Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Henry James


The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Publilius Syrus


It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Juvenal


Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Ferdinand Hodler


When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville


Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known.

Joseph Hall


A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Margaret Chase Smith


When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

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Quotes from the GOP debate (AP via Yahoo! News)

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:16:43 GMT
Some quotes from Saturday's Republican presidential candidate debate in Manchester, N.H. Organizers excluded California Rep. Duncan Hunter.

Clemens files defamation lawsuit against ex-trainer McNamee

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:15:00 GMT
ESPN.com - The suit quotes McNamee as saying he was pressured by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Parrella and IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky -- key members of the BALCO prosecution -- to implicate Clemens. The suit did not attribute where the quote from ...

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Nadine Gordimer


Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Marcus Aurelius


Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell


The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.

Abraham Lincoln


My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Kim Hubbard


There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it

Henry Van Dyke


Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Sir John Lubbock


Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Plato


Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

Robert Anson Heinlein


A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Alfred Lord Tennyson


There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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ITEX Advises Shareholders to Take No Action at This Time in Response ...

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:03:00 GMT
Forbes - This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning our expected performance (as described without limitation in the quotations from current management in this release) and comments within the safe ...

Republican forum quotes (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:20:22 GMT
Some quotes from Sunday's forum for Republican presidential candidates in Manchester, N.H. Ron Paul was excluded from the debate.

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Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:10:00 GMT
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Giants postgame quotes (Bradenton Herald)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:53:00 GMT
Postgame quotes from the New York Giants after their 24-14 wild-card playoff victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday:

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