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Robert Hutchins


It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

Dr. Robert Schuller


What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail

Clint Eastwood, Jr.


If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.

Publilius Syrus


Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Homer, The Iliad


A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Epictetus


No man is free who is not master of himself.

Mortimer Adler


Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991


If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?

Unknown


Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke


Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

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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 ...]

Oilers report: Notes, quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:53:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Forward Sam Gagner was named to the NHL's YoungStars game. He's 10th in rookie scoring with 16 points and has made highlight packages all around the league with his shootout goals. "It's pretty ...

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John Rogers


Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.

Steven Wright


If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it

Albert Einstein


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu


When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Louis Pasteur


There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I


The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Robert Elwood Bly


There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

C. S. Lewis


There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

Aristotle


Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

George Walker Bush


The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

Erma Bombeck


I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

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In Praise Of Fine Language

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:21:00 GMT
New York Sun - Donoghue has had a very successful life, and "On Eloquence" is its appropriate record: not a memoir but a collage of quotations, from all periods and genres, which have brought him ecstasy.

Defining Israeli Zionist racism -- part 8 of 12

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:55:00 GMT
Online Journal - SECTION 1: C ontinuation: G: Israeli Zionist racism in their own words ] Analysis: Zionist media vs. Israeli racist quotations. It is normal that people reject negative accusations -- especially in ...

In the women's mags: Royal shenanigans and lady love

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:32:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Fortunately, the magazine quotes a palace source as saying whatever may have happened between the pair is now over. Britney remains a favourite in the magazines after another meltdown. New Idea reveals ...

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Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:34:00 GMT
Reuters UK - SINGAPORE, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Gold fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday after a failure to hit a new record high the previous day sparked selling, but a struggling dollar and buying on dips by ...

Trinidad vs Jones Final Press Conferece Quotes And Photos

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:42:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - 16.01.08 - Photos by David Martin/DKP: The temperature heated up at the final press conference today at Madison Square Garden before Felix Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. step into the ring on Saturday ...

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Kahlil Gibran


Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges

Juvenal


All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Confucius


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Duke Ellington


A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Leonardo DaVinci


People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Arthur Koestler


If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Cicero, Orator


If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Thomas Jefferson


When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

P. J. O'Rourke


Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

Kathy Seligman


You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.

Paul Valery


Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.116 ounce

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:49:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg.; Monday $17.404 oz., $559.54 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You ...

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 ...]

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Famous Quotations for Today

Today's Famous Quotations:

Abraham Lincoln


If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Vernon Howard


Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Titus Plautus


Courage in danger is half the battle.

Oscar Wilde


Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

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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 ...]

Enlighten

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. ...]

Update: Halle Berry poses for InStyle and discusses her 'geriatric ...

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:38:00 GMT
Celebrity Baby Blog - Update : Quotations and photos added. Originally posted January 7th : Actress Halle Berry , 41, poses for the February issue of InStyle magazine. She and boyfriend Gabriel Aubry expect their first ...

Trinidad vs Jones Final Press Conferece Quotes And Photos

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:42:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - 16.01.08 - Photos by David Martin/DKP: The temperature heated up at the final press conference today at Madison Square Garden before Felix Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. step into the ring on Saturday ...

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Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

John Kerry, Statement on Vietnam before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971


How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


To hold a pen is to be at war.

H. L. Mencken


The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

Henry Louis Mencken


Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


The spirit is the true self.

Johnson


Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein


Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Mignon McLaughlin


Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter


Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05


If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

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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 ...]

Defining Israeli Zionist racism -- part 8 of 12

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:55:00 GMT
Online Journal - SECTION 1: C ontinuation: G: Israeli Zionist racism in their own words ] Analysis: Zionist media vs. Israeli racist quotations. It is normal that people reject negative accusations -- especially in ...

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