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John Milton


When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.


Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Clare Booth Luce


They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Isaac Asimov


Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women


If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don�t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Unknown


Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


In every good man a God doth dwell.

Real Live Preacher


You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Benjamin Jowett


The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

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Media outlets continued to mislead on the Clintons' "fairy tale" and ...

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:57:00 GMT
Media Matters - Media outlets continued to mislead on the Clintons' "fairy tale" and civil rights quotes Summary: Articles in Newsweek and The Washington Post mischaracterized a remark by former President Bill Clinton ...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: C$16.515 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:13:10 GMT
The Canadian Press January 9, 2008 - 1:04 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $16.515 oz., $530.96 kg.; Tuesday $16.215 oz., $521.31 kg.

Michael Dirda (Washington Post)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:29:44 GMT
MODERNISM The Lure of Heresy From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond By Peter Gay

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Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Epicurus


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

George Seaton Bowes


The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

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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 ...]

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. ...]

TIP-OFF: U-M hoops notes, quotes and more (Detroit Free Press)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:12:37 GMT
RECORD 5-11 (1-3 Big Ten) HERO MANNY HARRIS The U-M freshman guard scored 22 points, including 12 in the first half on 4-for-5 shooting. GOAT THE WILDCATS Most Northwestern players struggled to make lay-ups. Kevin Coble (34 points) and Michael Thompson (14) were the 'Cats' only double-figure scorers.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: C$16.719 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:18:01 GMT
The Canadian Press January 10, 2008 - 1:07 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $16.719 oz., $537.52 kg.; Wednesday $16.515 oz., $530.96 kg.

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Henry Louis Mencken


It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2


The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.

Grenville Kleiser


By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character

Margaret Mead


Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947


Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Corky Siegel


Life is too important to take seriously.

Bruce Barton


Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance

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6 Singular Quotes

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:58:00 +0000
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is ...]

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 ...]

Inflation wird handelbar

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:46:00 GMT
Boerse Online - In dieser Zeit dürften die Hauptumsätze getätigt werden. Ansonsten erfolgt ein kontinuierlicher Handel, bei dem Marketmaker auf Preisanfragen handelbare Quotes stellen.

6 Quotes about Eyes

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:51:00 +0000
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won’t tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch’s eyes. And as if this wasn’t ...]

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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Franklin P. Adams


I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

Andrew Schneider


Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. I am the sky, says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.

Lawrence Sterne


To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Angel Blessing


There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003


What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

William Whewell


Every failure is a step to success...

La Rochefoucauld


The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.

Will Durant


Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Alvin Toffler


Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure"


You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Denis Diderot


Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

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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 ...]

4 Lift Quotes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]

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Adrienne Rich


Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Anon.


Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

George Bernard Shaw, Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"


Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

William Shakespeare


I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

La Fontaine


Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Lord Melbourne


Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer


There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Elmer G. Letterman


Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Henry David Thoreau


Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

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Quotes about Reach

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. - Margaret Cho
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that ...]

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:54:04 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index 6,202.00(- 20.70) BAT Industries 1,985.00(- 64.00) BP Amoco   600.50(-4.50) Diageo   1,021.00(- 30.00) HSBC Holdings813...

TIP-OFF: U-M hoops notes, quotes and more (Detroit Free Press)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:12:37 GMT
RECORD 5-11 (1-3 Big Ten) HERO MANNY HARRIS The U-M freshman guard scored 22 points, including 12 in the first half on 4-for-5 shooting. GOAT THE WILDCATS Most Northwestern players struggled to make lay-ups. Kevin Coble (34 points) and Michael Thompson (14) were the 'Cats' only double-figure scorers.

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