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Vernon Sanders Law


Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Lord Byron


How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Rita Mae Brown


A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

P. G. Wodehouse


Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Oliver Cromwell


I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Richard Bach


Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends.

John C. Sawhill


In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.

Sir V Pritchett


All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

R. H. Delaney


Love builds bridges where there are none.

John Milton


How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year

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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.

Economic stimulus quotes (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:25:22 GMT
Some quotes Thursday regarding a possible economic stimulus plan: --- "Our discussion today is about short-term stimulus. ... Just in the terms of the next few months, I think that the evidence suggests that measures that involve putting money in the hands of households and firms that will spend it in the near term will be more effective. ...

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Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:

Anon.


Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.

Aldous Huxley


The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea

Konrad Adenauer


Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

Ronald Reagan


Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

Benjamin Disraeli


Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Hellen Keller


It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Henri Bergson


There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Blaise Pascal


If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

George Orwell


Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

German Proverb


Charity sees the need not the cause.

Plato, The Republic


The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

George Eliot


The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

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 ...]

How to be a fashion guru

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:58:00 GMT
Taipei Times - Here are some sample quotations: "The best things I've ever done have come from dreams"; "There is a German saying: 'You can't borrow on your past'"; "I love change;

Key quotes: Suffolk murders prosecution (BBC News)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:47:31 GMT
Key quotes from opening statements by Peter Wright QC, who is leading the prosecution in the Suffolk murders trial at Ipswich Crown Court.

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Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip jar


If you fear change, leave it here.

Mary Wollstonecraft


No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937


Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

The Dhammapada


Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.

W. Somerset Maugham


Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890


The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Phyllis Diller


Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Victor Hugo


No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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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.

Quotes from the GOP candidates on Mich. (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:46:38 GMT
Quotes from the Republican candidates on Tuesday's Michigan primary: --- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney

Gocompare to hit eight million quotes (icWales)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:51:44 GMT
PRICE comparison website Gocompare.com is on track to provide up to eight million car insurance quotes in 2008, the company said yesterday.

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Latest Famous Quotes

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Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove


(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids.

Arnold Toynbee


It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Henry Miller


A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be.

John A. Dix


If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.

Walt Whitman


I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

George Sand


The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

Jerry Maguire


Jerry I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok

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Democrats' debate quotes (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:22:24 GMT
Quotes from the Democrats' debate Tuesday in Las Vegas. Debate sponsor MSNBC excluded Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $16.88 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:47:15 GMT
The Canadian Press January 17, 2008 - 12:44 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $16.88 oz., $542.69 kg.; Wednesday $16.787 oz., $539.70 kg.

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Daily Quotes

Today's Quotes:

Dolly Parton


The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

Arthur Balfour


Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]


If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.

Jack Benny


A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

Robert F. Bennett


Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye.

Miguel de Unamuno


When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid-in which case all comment is superfluous-or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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Chris Rattue: As war of words is over, cricketing battle begins

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:54:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Among those apparently deploring Ponting was the sailing maestro John Bertrand and yet I heard Bertrand interviewed on radio and his manner was more reasoned than the written quotes suggested.

Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

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