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Ayn Rand, Anthem


The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Samuel Grafton


A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Samuel Butler


There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Liberace


When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

George W. Bush, September 20, 2001


Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

Spider-Man


Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.

Zora Neale Hurston


It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

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Obama gains Kerry's endorsement Candidate ramps up his Nevada campaign

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:54:00 GMT
Las Vegas Review Journal - Obama on Thursday put another ad into his rotation, "Moment," which intersperses footage of a well-received speech the Illinois senator gave in Des Moines with quotations from news headlines ...

Warehouse warns of flat profit after slow end to retail year

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:57:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - We had prepared for it and we had planned for it, so we were happy with the end result." * An earlier version of this story wrongly attributed quotes from Barry Hellberg to Ian Morrice.

London Stock Exchange quotations

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:31:00 GMT
Earthtimes - London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index 6,222.70(- 50.00) BAT Industries 2,049.00(+ 42.00) BP Amoco   605 ...

How news of Sir Ed's passing went round the world

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:59:00 GMT
Stuff - The Sydney Morning Herald included one of Ed's quotes, summing up his life: "In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of ...

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Daily Famous Quotations

Today's Famous Quotations:

Mickey Mantle


If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Frank Zappa


Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Julie Arabi


All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword.

Bill Watterson


Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Abraham Lincoln


...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Charles Franklin Kettering


The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

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Obama gains Kerry's endorsement Candidate ramps up his Nevada campaign

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:54:00 GMT
Las Vegas Review Journal - Obama on Thursday put another ad into his rotation, "Moment," which intersperses footage of a well-received speech the Illinois senator gave in Des Moines with quotations from news headlines ...

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 ...]

Warehouse warns of flat profit after slow end to retail year

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:57:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - We had prepared for it and we had planned for it, so we were happy with the end result." * An earlier version of this story wrongly attributed quotes from Barry Hellberg to Ian Morrice.

Edmund Hillary quotes

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:32:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - * Announcing to his climbing companions that he and Tenzing had reached Everest's summit: "We knocked the bastard off." * On life's inner challenges: "It is not the mountains that we conquer, but ...

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Today's Quotations

Quotations:

Mere


Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Titus Maccius Plautus


Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Christopher Reeve


Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Jerry Coleman


Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

Art Hoppe


If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Norman Vincent Peale


If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

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Obama gains Kerry's endorsement Candidate ramps up his Nevada campaign

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:54:00 GMT
Las Vegas Review Journal - Obama on Thursday put another ad into his rotation, "Moment," which intersperses footage of a well-received speech the Illinois senator gave in Des Moines with quotations from news headlines ...

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 ...]

Lesson Quotes

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:00 +0000
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you ...]

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Famous Quotations for Today

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Georgia O'Keeffe


Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.


I now have no time to be tired.

Thomas Jefferson


How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?

Molly Wiest


War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov


We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Saint Augustine, Confessions


I was in love with loving.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1


I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.

Larry Leissner


If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.

Sir Winston Churchill


He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Jimmy Carter


War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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Warehouse warns of flat profit after slow end to retail year

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:57:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - We had prepared for it and we had planned for it, so we were happy with the end result." * An earlier version of this story wrongly attributed quotes from Barry Hellberg to Ian Morrice.

How news of Sir Ed's passing went round the world

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:59:00 GMT
Stuff - The Sydney Morning Herald included one of Ed's quotes, summing up his life: "In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of ...

Bond Quotes

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:50:00 +0000
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. - Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. ...]

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Great Famous Quotes

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W. Somerset Maugham


There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Voltaire


To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

H. L. Mencken


There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

Bob Talbert


Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Lucille Clifton


Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

Sophocles, Ajax


Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

There's Something About Mary


Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans

R. Goldberg


The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey.

Unknown


Serious Sincere Systematic Service Surely Secures Supreme Success.

Mencius, Works


Sincerity is the way of Heaven.

English Proverb


Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Curtis Grant


Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

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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 ...]

Lesson Quotes

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:00 +0000
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you ...]

4 Quotes about Owners

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:16:00 +0000
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property…. Today you ...]

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 ...]

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