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James M. Barrie


God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

Paul Tournier


It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

H.G. Wells


Advertising is legalized lying.

Cowper


Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know.

Douglas Noel Adams


Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.

Tommy Lasorda


The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

Friedrich Nietzsche


Without music, life would be a mistake.

J. Mark Wallace


Life is a continual upgrade.

Miguel de Cervantes


Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

George Whitehead


It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.

Jawaharlal Nehru


A theory must be tempered with reality.

Gustave Flaubert


The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

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Quotes about Edwards' decision to drop out of presidential race

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:01:00 GMT
Charlotte.com - Quotes from candidates, elected officials and others about former U.S. Sen. John Edwards' decision Wednesday to drop out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination: - "At a time when our ...

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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:29:00 GMT
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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.

Garth Henrichs


One does not make friends. One recognizes them.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600


Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Sir Thomas More


Friendship demands attention.

Kin Hubbard


The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

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Judge Recuses From Courthouse Shooting Trial Following Remarks in ...

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:11:00 GMT
Law.com - Our conversation was to be on background only, and there would be no direct quotations or attributions, unless they were floated by me first." Not so, said Toobin, reached in New York.

Lawrence R. Velvel: The Great Louis Terkel

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:46:00 GMT
Scoop - Terkel quotes Nicholas Von Hoffman on this and then extends the point: The journalist Nick Von Hoffman worked with Saul Alinsky for a while and said: "Once a person joins a group, a demonstration or a ...

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Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Center


Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.

Laertius Diogenes


It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Jean Anouilh


The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.

George Bernard Shaw


The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Doris Lessing


The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Nadia Boulanger


Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Jean De La Fontaine


By the work one knows the workmen.

Oscar Wilde


The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

Dr. Robert Schuller


Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

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David Swanson: Road To Impeachment Via Cleveland

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:58:00 GMT
Scoop - When he's asked to bash immigrants, he quotes the words from the Statue of Liberty. And when he was asked to support the erosion of our rights and the build up to a fraudulent war in Iraq, he sued the ...

David Swanson: State Of The Union With A Statement

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:29:00 GMT
Scoop - The CQ article http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30543 quotes Senator Carl Levin and cites Senator Jim Webb as the leading sponsor of the contractor waste provision.

Key quotes from Israel's report on Lebanon war

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:43:00 GMT
Reuters AlertNet - Jan 30 (Reuters) - A government-appointed inquiry found serious faults among Israel's political and army leaders during the 2006 war in Lebanon but offered qualified backing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ...

Ukrainian News Agency

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:01:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0600-5.0650 UAH/USD, then decreased to 5.0580-5.0620 UAH/USD and by the end of the ...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.219 ounce

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:53:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.219 oz., $553.59 kg.; Tuesday $17.344 oz., $557.61 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site ...

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Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:

W. T. Ussery


Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

Joseph Addison


'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

Kahlil Gibran


Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Dan Rather


An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

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Adnan Ghalib tests male enhancement products

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:56:00 GMT
The Superficial - Or is he not only impotent but unable to properly use quotations? I don’t see how I’m supposed to trust a guy to inform me about Spermamax when he can’t even use the correct punctuation.

Quotations for Russian Minfin bonds

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:28:00 GMT
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Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:48:00 GMT
ninemsn - SYDNEY, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Indonesian coal miners are ramping up production and stockpiling more coal in anticipation of higher selling prices after struggling to meet output targets last month ...

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Great Famous Quotations

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Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.


Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Steve Chandler


There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.

William Feather


A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

Alexander Pope


Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Cornelius Tacitus


That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

Henry Clay


I had rather be right than be President.

James Thurber


It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde


When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Havelock Ellis


The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Horace


Whatever advice you give, be brief.

William Shakespeare


And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

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Inaccurate article complaint after cyclist dies

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:44:00 GMT
Lancashire Evening Telegraph - She was distressed to read that the article contained quotations from the tributes that had been left at the scene of the accident by family members. The complainant also raised concerns about the ...

Reporting: London

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:30:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a ...

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