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Jane Goodall


Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Earl Warren


I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

La Rochefoucauld


We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

Albert Camus


In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

J.D., "Heathers"


Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie.

Bible, Mark 8:36


For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Chapman Cohen, (1868-1954)


Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Daniel J. Boorstin


More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

George Burns


The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning anf a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince


Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.

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Aussie Open quotes

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:13:00 GMT
BBC News - "I was not playing against her, I was playing against me." Svetlana Kuznetsova explains how she lost to Agnieszka Radwanska. Sort of. "Usually, I'm losing my third match in a Grand Slam so I'm happy ...

Milton Wolff - fought fascists in Spain

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:05:00 GMT
San Francisco Gate - His memorial will be one day before the planned unveiling of an 8-foot-tall, 40-foot-long monument containing photographs and quotations in honor of the Lincoln Brigade at the Vaillancourt Fountain on ...

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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Jacques Martin Barzun


Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Oscar Wilde


Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Homer, The Odyssey


It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Scott Adams


I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931


The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Ronald Reagan


You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Charles de Montesquieu


In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Friedrich Nietzsche


Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Marianne Williamson


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Dwight D. Eisenhower


Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Hannah More


One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

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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 ...]

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 ...]

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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Victor Hugo, Les Miserables


Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Samuel Butler


You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

W. Somerset Maugham


Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Louis-Hector Berlioz


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

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.

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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 ...

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 ...]

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Aristotle


What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

H.R. Haldeman


Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004


All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Miguel de Cervantes


I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

Tommy Boy


Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps.

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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 ...]

comments on: Pavlik vs Taylor: Jermain Taylor Workout Quotes

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:10:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - I have a feeling that Taylor is going to KO/TKO Pavlik by around the 4th or 5th round. I think Pavlik is going to be trying too hard for the KO and will get caught, while behind on the scorecards ...

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 ...]

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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Unknown


If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred' And they'll say, 'Fred who' And you say, 'Fred of snakes' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming.

Emile Zola


The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Karl Kraus


What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Oscar Wilde


The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

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Candidates' quotes on Bush's remarks

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:18:00 GMT
Syracuse Post-Standard - (AP) — Some quotes Friday from the presidential candidates regarding President Bush's call for an economic package worth about $145 billion: "For the White House to propose spending over $100 ...

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.028 ounce

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:31:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.028 oz., $547.45 kg.; Thursday $16.88 oz., $542.69 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You ...

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.

Canadian dollar closed up 0.22 of a cent at 97.33 cents US

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:13:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$2.0082, down 2.13 cents and US$1.9546, down 1.62 cents. The euro was worth C$1.5012, down 0.87 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

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