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Elizabeth II


It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

William Shakespeare


What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god

Matthew Green (c. 1737)


Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.

Malcolm Forbes


It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Voltaire


When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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Quotes, Boxscore After Tennessee's Win Over Georgia (The Chattanoogan)

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:40:57 GMT
KNOXVILLE -- Quotes and boxscore after Tennessee's 85-69 SEC men's basketball victory here Saturday night over Georgia. Tennessee Head Coach Bruce Pearl: "It was important that we bounce back from the loss Tuesday night at Rupp. Georgia had only one loss.

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

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:50:39 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.

Quotes from Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla. (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:41:33 GMT
Some quotes from Thursday's Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla. _ On the Iraq war and President Bush: "I supported the president when he led us into this, as did the Democrats, and I think we owe him not a lot of scorn.

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Samuel Johnson


To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Sophocles


Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Author Unknown


Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

Unknown


To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.

Lord Acton


Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Thomas a Kempis


Remember that lost time does not return.

Anatole France


When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Jean Webster


It isn't the great pleasures that count the most it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

Unknown


Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Do you know what happens when you slice a golf ball in half Someone gets mad at you. I found this out the hard way.

Paul Auster


Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

David Grayson


Adventure is not outside a man it is within.

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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 ...]

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 ...]

Procès de l'Erika : Total fait appel

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:16:00 GMT
Les Echos - Une condamnation solidaire permet aux parties civiles de réclamer leurs dommages à un des condamnés, à charge pour ce dernier de se faire rembourser les quotes-parts auprès des autres coupables ...

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Margaret Chase Smith


When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Ocean's Eleven


Reuben Second most successful robbery. The Flamingo in '71. This guy actually tasted fresh oxygen before they grabbed him. Of course, he was breathing out of a hose for the next three weeks. God damn hippy.

Fran Lebowitz


When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Stephen Leacock


Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Robert Green Ingersoll


Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result.

Elbert Hubbard


A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980


Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Samuel Goldwyn


I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Christopher Morley


Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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The Week in Weird Celeb Quotes

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:16:00 GMT
ABC News - Apparently, Victoria Beckham loves everything her husband has to offer. At a Roberto Cavalli fashion show on Jan. 14, the Spice Girl mentioned how much she adored seeing her husband's half-naked body ...

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.

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Guy Davenport


Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Lily Yeamans


Sometimes I think we'd be better off blind.

Arabic Proverb


The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears.

A. J. Toynbee


Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.

Arthur C. Clarke


As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

W. Somerset Maugham


The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

William Shakespeare


My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

Kodak founder George Eastman, in his suicide note


My work is done, why wait?

Chinese Curse


May you always live in interesting times.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

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

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:47:25 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.

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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Samuel Smiles


It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Bhagavad Gita


On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

Jeff Melvoin


Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having.

Henry David Thoreau


Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.

Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934


The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Horace Bushnell


Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

George Washington


'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Jean de la Bruyere


Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed

Albert Einstein


Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.

Emil Nolde


Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.123 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:47:48 GMT
The Canadian Press January 24, 2008 - 12:38 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg.; Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of ... (Vineyard Gazette)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:04:46 GMT
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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.

U.S. Stock Quotes, Charts, and Research (Nasdaq)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:14:45 GMT
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