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Ecclesiastes


Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Peter J. Davies


Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Nelson Algren


Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Sidney Madwed


If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Author Unknown


Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)


We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Lou Holtz


Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Emile Chartier


There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Apuleius


He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:39:24 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.22 january21 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 11,933.6312,099.30(- 165.67) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,287.67 2,340.02(-52.35) TokyoNikkei12,573.0513,325.94(- 752...

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 ...]

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Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Danish proverb


If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.

Euripides, Aeolus


Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Walt Disney


All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


We make war that we may live in peace.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard


To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Socrates


True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Sharon Salzberg


Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

Oscar Wilde


To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Robert Louis Stevenson


Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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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.

Quotes from Sir Edmund Hillary's funeral (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:57:24 GMT
Quotes from today's funeral service for Sir Edmund Hillary.

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. ...]

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Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Teena Booth


If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

George Bernard Shaw


Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Anon.


Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

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ASX goes mobile with first dedicated share trading site

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:47:00 GMT
CIO.de - Users can trade both Australian Stock Exchange (ASX-listed) equities and options and view live watch lists and stock quotes while managing existing orders.

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. ...]

ASX goes mobile with first dedicated share trading site

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:47:00 GMT
CIO.de - Users can trade both Australian Stock Exchange (ASX-listed) equities and options and view live watch lists and stock quotes while managing existing orders.

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 ...

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Robert Green Ingersoll


If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Lao Tzu


It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Epicurus


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

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UNHAPPY END (New York Post)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:30:06 GMT
THE end of John Cleese's marriage to his wife of 19 years, psychotherapist Alyce Faye Eichelberger, follows a period of "melancholy" after the funerals of several of the comic's close friends, reports Sydney's Daily Telegraph. The paper quotes a...

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 ...]

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Jan 22 (INO News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:06:08 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Tue, Jan 22, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

Heath Ledger found dead, aged 28

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:03:00 GMT
Stuff - What a shock! Reports of Aussie Oscar-nominee Heath Ledger’s death from a possible drug overdose seem to have come out of the blue. Pills were found by his body. The New York Times quotes the New ...

Quotes & Comments (Western Herald)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:21:17 GMT
"I don't think we're going to see the 2,700-calorie appetizers that we see now." - Health commissioner Thomas Frieden, hoping that New York City's Board of Health's vote will require major fast-food chains to list calorie counts prominently on their menus.

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Latest greatest Quotations

Today's Quotations:

Thomas Jefferson


I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Charles Fox


Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

William James


There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon


Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.


Wisdom comes with winters.

Sophia Loren


Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Moroccan Proverb


He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Samuel Johnson


A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Jack Kerouac


The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Cato, Roman statesman and historian


If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

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(Adds details, Egyptian quotes, colour)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:37:00 GMT
Reuters UK - RAFAH, Gaza, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Palestinian militants blew up part of the wall between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt to stock up on food and fuel ...

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.184 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:47:10 GMT
The Canadian Press January 22, 2008 - 12:41 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.; Friday $17.028 oz., $547.45 kg.

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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