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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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George Colman, The Younger


Praise the bridge that carried you over.

Woody Allen


There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman

Lee Iacocca


Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Charles W. Eliot


In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Eric Sevareid


The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.


It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson


Delay is preferable to error.

Mary Kay Ash


A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.116 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:47:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 15, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg.; Monday $17.404 oz., $559.54 kg.

AmericanHistoryQuotes.com Launches New Quotes Resource Site

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:55:00 GMT
PR.com - Washington, DC, January 15, 2008 --( PR.com )-- AmericanHistoryQuotes.com has officially launched a new online quotes resource site. This reference site contains thousands of quotes by famous ...

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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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William Hazlitt


Those who can command themselves command others.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


If you wished to be loved, love.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha


When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Samuel Smiles


Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill


Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

Miguel de Cervantes


It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

Omar Khayym


The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Harry S Truman


Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Henrik Ibsen


It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

John Lennon


If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]

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 ...]

Barca tame holders Sevilla to advance in Cup (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:37:41 GMT
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Giuliani quotes scripture in Fla. church

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:55:00 GMT
PlanetOut - With his plan for winning the Republican presidential nomination riding largely on a big Florida victory at the end of the month, Rudy Giuliani asked an evangelical congregation for prayers instead of ...

WHAT THEY SAID: Quotes from the Michigan promary (Detroit Free Press)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:03:06 GMT
"Unemployment hits everybody one way or another and it's going to get worse. We need someone who can get some business in here." Miriam Kottler, 70, Southfield, who voted for Republican Mitt Romney.

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Thomas Jefferson


Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

"Swedish Proverb"


Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.

Warren Bennis


Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Wendy Wasserstein


No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Albert Einstein


Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Bruce Barton


Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Albert Einstein


It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Clare Booth Luce


Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

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Ukrainian News Agency

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:50:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0480-5.0550 UAH/USD, then rose to 5.0500-5.0580 UAH/USD and by the end of the ...

Buckeyes' Butler is ultimate go-to guy (Chicago Tribune)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:15:25 GMT
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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:54:09 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

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Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

Robert Benchley


Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Bertrand Russell


All movements go too far.

Benjamin Franklin


I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

W. Clement Stone


Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Richard Nixon


True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:52:00 GMT
Reuters UK - LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The dollar matched the previous day's seven-week low against the yen on Tuesday on expectations that U.S. retail sales data and banking results could boost the case for ...

Giuliani quotes scripture in Florida (Gay.com)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:14:20 GMT
In a state he needs badly to win, Rudy Giuliani asks an evangelical congregation for prayers instead of votes and quotes scripture on hope.

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Benjamin Disraeli


Ignorance never settles a question.

Zig Ziglar


Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Jill Eikenberry


You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

Miyamoto Musashi


Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)


We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Pope


Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Edward Gibbon


All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Thomas Carlyle


Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

George Eliot


Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Margot Fonteyn


If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Author Unknown


Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

George Macaulay Trevelyan


History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

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Oilers report: Notes, quotes

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:05:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Since coming back from a knee injury, Ales Hemsky has seven points in four games. Just as importantly, linemate Shawn Horcoff, who had one assist in the four games Hemsky was out, has eight points in the four games he's been back. --D Dick ...

Reporting: London

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:25:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a beautiful tourist attraction, it said. Al Queda is ...