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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

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Simone Weil


Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Maurice Chapelain


The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

Sam Ewig


Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Chinese Proverb


A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Budd Schulberg


Isn't everyone a part of everyone else

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality


The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Robert Hutchins


The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

H. Ross Perot


Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday


I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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UW men's basketball: Notes and quotes from Minneapolis

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT
Wisconsin State Journal - The Badgers never trailed during their 63-47 victory over Minnesota, which led UW coach Bo Ryan to say, "I'd like to have a start like that, a middle like that and an end like that. How about that? I ...

Quotations of the day

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...

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Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004


If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

John Petit Senn


Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Ernest Hemingway


You lose it if you talk about it.

Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy


Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."

Bosnian Proverb


Who lies for you will lie against you.

Mario M Cuomo


I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

Helen Keller


I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Manilius


We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

H. Ross Perot


Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.

James Fenimore Cooper


The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding"


The price of seeing is silence.

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EDS to provide quick fare quotes for Continental

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Electronic Data Systems has signed an agreement with Continental Airlines to implement a new electronic fares system. Plano-based EDS (NYSE: EDS) did not disclose financial details of the contract ...

Today's quotes from the Associated Press

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:25:00 GMT
Island Packet Online - “We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life.” — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of ...

EDS to provide quick fare quotes for Continental

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Electronic Data Systems has signed an agreement with Continental Airlines to implement a new electronic fares system. Plano-based EDS (NYSE: EDS) did not disclose financial details of the contract ...

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon


It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

Quentin Crisp


Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Laurence Hope


For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go

Josiah Gilbert Holland


Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.

Helen Rowland


To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

Mother Theresa


Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

Russell Baker


I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Michelangelo Buonarroti


I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams


A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Andrew Brown


Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

James Grand


To forgive is human, to forget divine. . ..

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Angry residents want factors out

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
Glasgow Evening Times - However Ross and Liddell insist it has followed good practice in obtaining quotes for the specification required and put forward a range of solutions to all the problems - but residents have not taken ...

Quotations of the day

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...

Canadian dollar closed up 0.07 of a cent at 100.67 cents US

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:36:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9593, up 0.53 of a cent and US$1.9725, up 0.67 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4826, up 0.85 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:44:00 GMT
Earthtimes - London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations. cashforward Copper        7,266.50( 7,299.50)         7,260.00( 7,282 ...

Quotations of the day

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...

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Philip Guedalla


Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004


At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

Bruce Barton


Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Publilius Syrus


It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Erich Fromm


Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

H. L. Mencken


Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

French Proverb


A father is a banker provided by nature.

Roth Gabrielle


If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.

Unknown


The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

Henry Fielding


If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

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Ukrainian News Agency

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:02:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0520-5.0580 UAH/USD, then narrowed to 5.0540-5.0560 UAH/USD and by the end of the ...

Reporting: London

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:58:00 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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Ralph Waldo Emerson


Skill to do comes of doing.

William Cowper


Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.

John Harold


Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

J. A. Spender


'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

Dame Edith Sitwell


I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer


God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Nicolas Martin


When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

Charles Buxton


The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.

Erich Fromm


In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003


When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

William S. Buroughs, Paris Review, Fall 1965


I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

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Angry residents want factors out

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
Glasgow Evening Times - However Ross and Liddell insist it has followed good practice in obtaining quotes for the specification required and put forward a range of solutions to all the problems - but residents have not taken ...

Net Up To £547 Per Year Saving Online

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:09:00 GMT
Presse Box - Response information was passed through MoneyExpert.com’s price comparison software to generate example quotations in order to determine respondents’ potential savings.