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Saturday, February 02, 2008

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Louis Vermeil


The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

Brendan Francis


A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Ernest Haycox


No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next.

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Appearance of major investor pushes OFZ quotations upward (Interfax)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:28:08 GMT
MOSCOW. Jan. 31. (Interfax) - Quotations for Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) on Thursday edged upward following increased demand on the part of a major investor. Market experts said the major investor was likely a state structure and not a market player.

MMA enhances tradesman cover

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:58:00 GMT
Insurancetimes.co.uk - This means brokers can obtain quotations and bind cover instantly and full policy documentation is available to download. Brokers can also renew cover, access policy details and make common ...

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Moliere


No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Jean Cocteau


The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Leonardo da Vinci


Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

James Barrie


To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Warren Buffett


I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn�t count; building arks does.

Jerry Coleman


Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

George Santayana


A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld


If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

James Cash Penney


I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

Alan Perlis


The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Mary Lou Cook


Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

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Compass Logistics Launches New Website For On-line Freight Quotes And Web-based Shipping Tools (Logistics)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:42:54 GMT
Compass Logistics, Inc., an Atlanta-based leading logistics provider, recently announced the launch of a completely redesigned interactive targeted at providing on-line freight quotes for LTL, Truckload and Air Cargo shipments.

OFZ quotations move upward following positive external market trends (Interfax)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:26:18 GMT
MOSCOW. Feb. 1. (Interfax) - Quotations for Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) posted gains on Friday following positive trends on foreign markets. The average weighted price of OFZ 46018, which matures in 2021, increased 0.07 of a percentage point to 110.22% with 225.456 million rubles in deals.

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

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:47:18 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic debate between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Los Angeles.

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: C$17.344 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:08:02 GMT
The Canadian Press January 29, 2008 - 2:02 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.344 oz., 557.61 kg.; Monday $17.472 oz., $561.72 kg.

They said it - sporting quotes of the week - February 1 (Daily Mail)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:03:17 GMT
Poyet, Beckham, Capello, Adebayor, Keegan, Ferguson, Jewell and Sharapova -among many others - deliver their sporting quotes of the week

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Dwight D Eisenhower


Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762


It has all been very interesting.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Learn to labour and to wait.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I wish I lived on a planet that had two suns---regular sun and 'rogue' sun. That way, when somebody asked me what time it was, I'd say, 'Regular time' And they'd say, 'Yeah.' And I'd say, 'Sorry, all I have is rogue time.' It'd be fun to be a stuck-up rogue-time guy.

Eleanor Roosevelt


One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise.

William Shakespeare


It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

Heraclitus, On the Universe


You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Saturday Review


Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes


Reality continues to ruin my life.

Irish Proverb


Better be quarreling than lonesome.

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Quotes from the Democratic debate (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:09:39 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic debate between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Los Angeles. --- CLINTON

Stock & fund quotes

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:27:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Spot gold prices fell roughly 2 percent during the London afternoon fixing to an intraday low of $904.70 per ounce as traders took profits from an earlier high as the dollar ...

Eastern Creek: Friday Quotes

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:41:00 GMT
Pitpass - A1 Team Brasil has moved from meeting a World Cup winner to getting the next round of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport underway in under 24 hours. Race driver Sergio Jimenez met up with Juninho, a ...

Eastern Creek: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:56:29 GMT
Eastern Creek: Friday Quotes

Appearance of major investor pushes OFZ quotations upward (Interfax)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:28:08 GMT
MOSCOW. Jan. 31. (Interfax) - Quotations for Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) on Thursday edged upward following increased demand on the part of a major investor. Market experts said the major investor was likely a state structure and not a market player.

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Jean Iris Murdoch


The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Mark Twain


Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

John Whitehead


The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.

M. Scott Peck


You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Sophocles, Antigone


How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Gene Fowler


Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Seneca


I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.

Mark Twain


Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872)


It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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Stock & fund quotes

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:57:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) said on Friday it made its decisions on a commercial basis and that the Chinese government did not interfere. Chinalco President Xiao Yaqing ...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.219 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:05:39 GMT
The Canadian Press January 30, 2008 - 12:51 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.219 oz., $553.59 kg.; Tuesday $17.344 oz., $557.61 kg.

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George F. Will


Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

Joseph Conrad


For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


The tired and thirsty prospector threw himself down at the edge of the watering hole and started to drink. But then he looked around and saw skulls and bones everywhere. 'Uh-oh,' he thought. 'This watering hole is reserved for skeletons.'

George Price


Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer

Johann von Goethe


He who seizes the right moment is the right man.

Edgar Albert Guest


Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

E. R. Bulwer-Lytton


It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Herbert Mitgang


Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

George Gallup


I could prove God statistically.

Yugoslav Proverb


If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: C$17.344 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:08:02 GMT
The Canadian Press January 29, 2008 - 2:02 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.344 oz., 557.61 kg.; Monday $17.472 oz., $561.72 kg.

Eastern Creek: Friday Quotes (Pitpass)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:55:11 GMT
Eastern Creek: Friday Quotes

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:36:32 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,851.75 (-23.60) MDAX8,718.81 (+ 7.62) Adidas 42.48 (-0.54) Allianz 119.46 (-2.05) BASF 87...

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:43:20 GMT
"I'm not running on President Bush's record. President Bush can talk about his record. Washington is badly broken.'' -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during a debate with other Republican presidential hopefuls.