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Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)


The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Friedrich von Schiller


It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Susan Sontag


The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Richard Russo


People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Amy Vanderbilt


The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Robert A. Heinlein


Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in 1943


I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Benjamin Franklin


They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Bertrand Russell


In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine


Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.

Ronald Reagan


I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar.

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Quotes from Monday's Democratic debate

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:47:00 GMT
Boston Globe - Excerpts of exchanges between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards at the Democratic debate Monday in Myrtle Beach, S.C. CNN's Wolf Blitzer moderated. Clinton and Obama's testy ...

Quotations of the day

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:18:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We are entrenched in a reality in which no side alone can solve the problem." — Israeli counterterrorism expert Yoni Fighel on the conflict in which neither Israel, Hamas nor moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appears able to win the ...

Bush Quote: “There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say …”

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:55:01 +0000
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“There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say . . .” - George W. Bush
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Japan's NTT group raises stake in Philippines' PLDT to 20.03 percent

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:20:00 GMT
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Daily Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett


It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.

Leonardo DaVinci


Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Confucius


The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Alexander Senturia


Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Jimmy Buffett


If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Hugh Prather


Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Jody Weintraub


This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start

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4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

Aussie Open quotes (BBC News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:34:02 GMT
"They were so scared - they couldn't wait until they landed"

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Today's Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Wystan Hugh Auden


All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

Richard Milhous Nixon


People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

George Burns


I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

Randolph Ray


I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band 'Be kind to one another.' This is the Golden Rule of Marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.

Martin Niemller


In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.

William Faulkner


The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton


Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Helen Keller


No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Dr. Robert Schuller


Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Alexander Pope


It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

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4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

Quotes from Monday's Democratic debate (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:52:29 GMT
Excerpts of exchanges between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards at the Democratic debate Monday in Myrtle Beach, S.C. CNN's Wolf Blitzer moderated. --- Clinton and Obama's testy exchange after Obama tried to defend his comments about Republican ideas and Ronald Reagan: OBAMA: Now, let's talk about Ronald Reagan. What you ...

Samsung JACK offers the ultimate public display of connection

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:49:00 GMT
Groupe CNW - The Windows Mobile enabled Samsung JACK, offers the ability to access, edit and then send Microsoft(R) Office(R) documents such as customer quotations, anywhere, anytime, saving users valuable time.

Oklahoma Agriculture

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:23:00 GMT
Tulsa World - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are Monday's mid-session cattle and hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE -- Estimated receipts: 5,600; last Monday:9,457; last year: 760.

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Quotations for Today

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Dorothea Dix


In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

George Bernard Shaw


A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Harlen Ellison, interview with Charlie Rose


What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was not nailed down.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface


All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.

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Lesson Quotes

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 ...]

Review urged of comparison websites

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:39:00 GMT
MSN UK News - The group said many of the price comparison websites used assumptions as the basis for their quotations but a third of consumers were not aware of this.

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Great Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne


I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Scott Adams


Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

Batman


Batman I'm not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me. Nic What are you Batman I'm Batman

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004


I�m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Gretel Ehrlich


Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

Jessamyn West


A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Reinhold Niebuhr


Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Francesco Guicciardini


The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

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Fractured Family Warmed by Its Bright Teenage Star (New York Times)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:46:00 GMT
?The Life of Ryan? is a reality television milestone for one good reason: after years of commoners? showboating, here comes a showboat who wants to be common.

Quotes from the 2008 candidates (Boston Globe)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:07:36 GMT
Quotes from the presidential candidates regarding Saturday's contests: DEMOCRATS

In quotes: EU treaty debate (BBC News)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:31:24 GMT
A selection of quotes from the opening debate on the bill that will ratify the Lisbon Treaty.

Month Quotes

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 ...]

'The Money Masters: How Banks Create the World's Money'

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:52:00 GMT
WorldNetDaily - This riveting two-DVD set covers the history of monetary reform from Roman times to the present, and is packed with brilliant quotations and is absolutely the best production on the Federal Reserve ...

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