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Saturday, February 09, 2008

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Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan


The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

Thomas Jefferson


Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia


They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Bertrand Russell


Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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Quotes from the candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:46:40 GMT
Quotes from the candidates on Super Tuesday's presidential nominating contests:

Reporting: London

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:04:00 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 ...

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.78 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:45:49 GMT
The Canadian Press February 8, 2008 - 2:31 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.78 oz., $571.63 kg.; Thursday $17.641 oz., $567.16 kg.

Ukrainian News Agency

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:16:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - On Friday, the interbank hryvnia rate fell by 1 kopeck to 5.0600 UAH/USD after rising on Thursday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations ...

Quotations of the day

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:28:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of ...

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Dr. Jonas Salk


I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

George Santayana


Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Price Cobb


Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.

Mark Twain


There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Charles Buxton


To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky


I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Saki


He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Robert Greenleaf


Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.145 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:41:55 GMT
The Canadian Press February 5, 2008 - 12:34 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.145 oz., $551.21 kg.; Monday $17.171 oz., $562.05 kg.

Blue Horizon Final Press Conference quotes (East Side Boxing)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:08:50 GMT
Philadelphia (February 6th, 2008)-Quotes from Wednesday’s final press conference at The Legendary Blue Horizon for Friday night’s show that will feature Lenny DeVictoria taking on Derrick Moon; Gee Cullmer battling John Michael Terry and Ran Nakash squaring off with Ray Ruiz. There will be four other bouts plus a ceremony honoring Randall “Tex” Cobb. .

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Edna Buchanan


True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

Richard Ingrams


It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2


Beware the ides of March.

Sanskrit Proverb


Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

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Just quotes (holy and unholy)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:07:00 GMT
Turkish Daily News - » That's enough... I know very well that the words in this column go unnoticed, are ignored or incite anger in the camp that supports the “AKP (Justice and Development Party) cause” in quite ...

Reporting: London

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:04:00 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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Grace Fallow Norton


I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you.

Josh Billings


Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

C. S. Lewis


Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

John Henry Newman


Growth is the only evidence of life.

Cicero


Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Miriam Beard


Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.145 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:36:09 GMT
The Canadian Press February 5, 2008 - 12:34 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.145 oz., $551.21 kg.; Monday $17.171 oz., $562.05 kg.

Reaction in quotes: Sharia law row (BBC News)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:15:56 GMT
There has been a mixed reaction to Rowan Williams' comments about Sharia law in Britain - leading figures give their opinion.

LUBRIZOL CP (IWon - Money)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:08:15 GMT
Last Trade Time: 9:48AM - All quotes delayed up to 20 minutes. Quotes provided by S&P ComStock. disclaimer.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau


As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Max De Pree


The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Samuel Johnson


ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.

Epictetus


We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Cicero


To each his own.

Rob Brown


If you're going to have it - have it all.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Friedrich Nietzsche


How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

Voltaire


I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Cleobulus


Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

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Quotations of the day

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:28:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:40:23 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.6 February 5 Februarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,358.6112,265.13(+93.48) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,332.91 2,309.57(+23.34) TokyoNikkei13,099.2413,745.50(- 646....