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The shortest answer is the doing the thing.

William Faulkner


Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

J. D. Salinger


You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

Heinrich Heine


Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Steven Bernstein, Interview


My kids can do whatever they want as long as they are not Republicans or junkies. That is where I draw the line.

E.W. Dijkstra


The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.

Larry Wall


It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Vince Lombardi


Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Sir John Denham


Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst.

Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation


Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
Higher emotions, and table manners.

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science


The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Alfred Lord Tennyson


Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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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.

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 ...]

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.081 ounce

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:33:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.; Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site ...

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Carrie Fisher


You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Lee Iacocca


Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

John Madden


The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Clement of Rome


How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness And all these things are within our comprehension.

Dorothy Parker


I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

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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 ...]

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.05 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:53:15 GMT
The Canadian Press January 25, 2008 - 12:42 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.05 oz., $548.16 kg.; Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg.

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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Woody Allen


I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Tony Bennet


I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Neil Postman


The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Francis Bacon


If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Winston Churchill


Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Mark Twain


I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Plato


Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Charles Thompson


Never solve a problem from its original perspective.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000


Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Fran Lebowitz


The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Seneca


This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.

H. L. Mencken


It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

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Exercising habits of Elis misrepresented by unsubstantiated ...

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:31:00 GMT
Yale Daily News - For Shapiro, candidates’ verbal gaffes are gems Published in 2006, the “Yale Book of Quotations” is a reference book that challenges the established quotation collection that is “Bartlett’s ...

Tracey Barnett: Oh say, can you see ... it's America's chance to win

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:14:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - It's all peachy fine analysis, but the endless spin is always dressed in air quotes. Any semblance of political passion gets sucked out of the equation, like serving up already chewed dessert.

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.081 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:47:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 23, 2008 - 12:31 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.; Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.

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Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point"


Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Joseph Brodsky


For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Marcus Terentius Varro


The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Ronald Reagan


The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Frank Zappa


It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice -- there are two other possibilities one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Alfred Lord Tennyson


There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Khalil Gibran


The envier praises me unknowingly.

George Bernard Shaw


It is most unwise for people in love to marry

Houssaye


Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

Pesach Seder


The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.

Francis Bacon


Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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Banking Veteran to Join First Merchants as Executive Vice President ...

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:32:00 GMT
Forbes - First Merchants Corporation's common stock is traded over-the-counter on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol FRME. Quotations are carried in daily newspapers and can be found on the company's Internet Web page (http://www ...

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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Martin Luther King


Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Johann von Goethe


Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Abraham Lincoln


And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Sir Theodore Martin


Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Blaise Pascal


We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964


The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

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Quotes from the Republican debate (AP via Yahoo! News)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:55:47 GMT
Some quotes from Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.

Rabbi Boteach, you're wrong about Chabad

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:10:00 GMT
Jerusalem Post - Without engaging in theological niceties, I present quotations from statements by religious mentors in respected Lubavitch institutions in both Israel and the United States.

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