Great Quotations

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Stephen Leacock


Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Maasai Proverb


Daylight follows a dark night.

Garry Shandling


I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

Homer, The Iliad


It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Al Gore - during 1992 Vice Presidential debate


George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.

Ursula K. LeGuin


What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy

Jerry Coleman


I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

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Quotes about Architecture

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]

Zerstörtes Vertrauen

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:33:00 GMT
Neue Zürcher Zeitung - ... nicht der Architekt des japanischen Wirtschaftswunders, William Edwards Deming gewesen, niemand hätte dieser Aussage für sinnvoll gehalten! < http://www.deming.ch/quotations.html ...

Spoofing-Schwachstelle im Webbrowser Firefox

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:37:00 GMT
Heise - Mit Single Quotes und Spaces lässt sich laut Raff ein Dialog darstellen, der dem Anwender vorgaukelt, von einer ihm vertrauten Seite zu stammen, obwohl er von einer Phishing-Seite ...

LIONS' LATEST: Final grades, Roy Williams' best quotes and Mike Martz blasting Detroit's offense (Detroit Free Press)

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:13:48 GMT
Pro-Football Pick'em! Sign-up for Freep.com's Pro-Football Pick'em Contest. It's free and you can win prizes! Compete with fans nationally, locally and with Free Press writers. Weekly and Survivor style!

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Quotations Update

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Charles V


Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher


I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Alexander Pope


A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Simone Weil


Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

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Always Jumping The Shark

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:09:00 GMT
Gawker - And I am not surprised to hear that he selectively chose quotations from Choire to make the former managing editor feel, well, abused. And I am not surprised that to try to show that Gawker has "jumped the shark" (can we retire this idiot 2001-era ...

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 ...]

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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Latest greatest Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

John Tillotson


A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac


Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Eddie Rickenbacker


Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

John Galsworthy


If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003


The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

Unknown


Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

William Goldman


Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Friedrich Nietzsche


On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.


History is full of surprises.

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Tripoint appointed to panel for Victoria government

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:39:00 GMT
CIO.de - The panel was established to improve the speed of seeking quotes and selecting developers. The move has reduced the department's overall cost of development and the three year ...

Zerstörtes Vertrauen

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:33:00 GMT
Neue Zürcher Zeitung - ... nicht der Architekt des japanischen Wirtschaftswunders, William Edwards Deming gewesen, niemand hätte dieser Aussage für sinnvoll gehalten! < http://www.deming.ch/quotations.html ...

Quotes about Architecture

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]

UK drowning in spam tidal wave

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:42:00 GMT
CIO.de - IronPort quotes a rather speculative US$500 cost per PC to deal with the problem, with most of this cost hidden in the back office, while users ignore the issue at the desktop level

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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Today's Famous Quotations

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Mother Teresa


I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Winston Churchill


I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sebastian R. N. Chamfort


The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.

Charles Caleb Colton


We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.

Charlie Chaplin


In the end, everything is a gag.

Simone Weil


When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.

William James


The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Josh Billings


A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

Caecilius Statius


Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.

Sophocles


Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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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 ...]

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $16.215 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:58:05 GMT
The Canadian Press January 8, 2008 - 12:41 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $16.215 oz., $521.31 kg.; Monday $15.785 oz., $507.49 kg.

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Quotations for Today

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Janet Reno, February 2, 1998


They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"


#3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.

Tobias G. Smollett


Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Samuel Butler


I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine


Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Scandinavian Proverb


Go often to the house of thy friend for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Georges Eliot, Middlemarch


One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Ayn Rand


Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Bette Davis


Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

David B. Haight


Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

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How well do you know Barack Obama? Here are 10 surprises

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:05:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - MALCOLM X: Today Obama quotes Martin Luther King Jr, but in his college days it was the autobiography of militant Malcolm X that grabbed his attention more than any other black writer.

Quotes about Architecture

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]

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