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Saturday, January 19, 2008

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Elbert Hubbard


An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Queen Victoria


I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

Carl R. Rogers


What I am is good enough if I could only be it openly.

A. Whitney Brown


Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

Alan J. Perlis


A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Samuel Smiles


It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Jean Valjean


Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.

Madame de Maintenon


The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

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Report: Cell phone explosion may have killed man

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:42:00 GMT
CIO.de - The report quotes an unnamed police official as saying, "we presume that the cell phone battery exploded," but the official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the ...

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. ...]

Chavez: US attack on Iran will spike oil

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:35:00 GMT
Finanz Nachrichten - After the quotes from Islam's holy book, Chavez warned that the U.S. should not target OPEC members for foreign policy reasons. 'If the U.S. attacks Iran or Venezuela, the price of ...

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Lois McMaster Bujold


It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Richard Leider


The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

Joseph Schiedler, Director, Pro-Life Action League


I think contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.

Eubie


Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Elizabeth Bowen


Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.


History is full of surprises.

Ronald Reagan


Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in

John Keats


Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:17:40 GMT
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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:09:25 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.Jan 16 Jan 15 Difference...

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Oscar Wilde


Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Vulgate


Behold the man.
(Ecce Homo)

E. E. Cummings


To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Chris Thyberg


Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!

Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin


Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me.

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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.

Peter Griffin : Steve Jobs Show tinged with disappointment

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:43:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Now the frustration - the fact Apple is asking for US$20 from early iPod Touch buyers for a software update that will give them full email capability and access to stock quotes and weather updates.

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:39:00 GMT
Reuters - WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush called on Congress on Friday to give the U.S. economy a "shot in the arm" with an election-year package of temporary tax cuts and other measures ...

Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:57:00 GMT
Earthtimes - London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations. cashforward Copper         7,117.50 ( 7,085.00)       7,112.50 ( 7,067 ...

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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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Ben Sweetland


Success is a journey, not a destination.

Author Unknown


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

George Jean Nathan


Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Daniel H. Burnham


Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

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Thompson accuses British newspaper of fabricating Buzz quotes News by Tom Bramwell (EuroGamer)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:07:07 GMT
US attorney Jack Thompson has claimed that quotes attributed to him by British newspapers are "a total fabrication". "I was never interviewed about Buzz. I had never heard about it until I was quoted having allegedly said this about it," Thompson claimed in an email to Eurogamer.

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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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 ...]

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Brian Tracy


If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Samuel Johnson


Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Bruce Lee


Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003


Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan


The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

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Don't play musical chairs in Washington, Romney ad says

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:39:00 GMT
Boston Globe - As martial, upbeat music plays, the ad lists glowing quotations from Grover Norquist, George Will, Steve Forbes, the Club for Growth, and Americans for Tax Reform.

Zuma gives up Mbeki's weekly online column

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:36:00 GMT
Mail & Guardian Online - ... was an opportunity, much prized by Mbeki, to deliver often literary admonishments to individuals or organisations that had crossed him in the previous week. He laced his lectures with long quotations ...