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Edgar Alan Poe


All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Voltaire


Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Edmund Burke


All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Batman


The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME

Blaise Pascal


Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Anderson H. Scruggs


Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

Unknown


Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Cary Grant


I improve on misquotation.

George Bernard Shaw


The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

Houssaye


Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1


Love is the life of humanity.

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The down-payment-poor are about to get squeezed

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:05:00 GMT
Baltimore Sun - Jeff Lipes, president of Family Choice Mortgage in Wethersfield, Conn., said the new emphasis on higher FICO scores and larger down payments could greatly complicate rate quotations.

Quotes from the 2008 candidates (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:29:26 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Saturday. --- DEMOCRATS

Daytona Shootout: GM teams race quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:28:11 GMT
NOTE: Truex, Jr. was involved in a multi-car accident on lap of the final segment of the Budwieser Shootout. The No. 1 Impala SS was damaged too extensively to repair and return to competition:

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Today's Famous Quotations

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Greg Proops


I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Dr. Seuss


If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.

Robert Francis Kennedy


Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

Erica Jong


Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Samuel Johnson


Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

La Rochefoucauld


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

Samuel Johnson


He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Ernest Hemingway


When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Howard Thurman


Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Ronald Reagan


It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:41:24 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Papal guidance by text for Italian believers

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:39:00 GMT
Daily Telegraph - The quotations, which cost 18p for a simple message or 26p with a photograph of John Paul, have been picked by Mr Navarro Valls, who now works as a commentator on the Vatican. Mr Navarro Valls said the strength of John Paul II's message would ...

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. .

Jermain Taylor workout quotes (Boxing Insider)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:36:41 GMT
Jermain Taylor: You're OK not fighting for a belt this time? "When I win, I'll be walking out of there with everything he took from me. I'm walking out of there with my pride."

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Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb


Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Phaedrus


The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Helen Rowland


The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Eleanor Roosevelt


A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Japanese Proverb


Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

George Carlin


Weather forecast for tonight dark.

Frank Herbert, Dune


Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

Robert Solow


It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

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Canadian dollar jumped 1.09 cents to close at 100.02 cents US

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:24:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9458, down 1.77 cents and US$1.9462, up 0.30 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4514, up 0.29 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.

Yahoo board set to reject Microsoft bid: reports

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:57:00 GMT
Big Pond News - The Journal quotes the unnamed source as saying Microsoft's offer amounted to an attempt to "steal" the company and that Yahoo is unlikely to consider any offer under $US40 ($45) per share.

Papal Messages To Be Available Via Text

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:28:00 GMT
All Headline News - ... personal spokesman for 16 years, arranged for telecom provider Vodafone to offer a text messaging service by end of February. <>For a minimal fee, Vodafone will send subscribers simple quotations from ...

Oilers report: Notes, quotes

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:22:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Sheldon Souray will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his shoulder Thursday and will be out of the lineup for at least two weeks, and perhaps the rest of the season. The surgeon in New Jersey will ...

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Francois Fenelon


If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Frederick Saunders


Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Blaise Pascal


The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

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A Program in Four Parts, With One a Farewell (New York Times)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:12:04 GMT
In leaving the job of resident choreographer of New York City Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon seems to be taking up another as traveling choreographer to the world.

G-7 finance chiefs in Japan

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT
KUTV - France's minister quotes U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as expressing concern about the state of the U.S. economy and property market but says he did not use the word "recession.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:42:26 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,767.28 (+33.56) MDAX8,646.16 (+53.73) Adidas 42.11 (+0.43) Allianz 115.70 (+0.43) BASF 83...

Berdych, Stepanek guide Czechs to quarters (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:53:42 GMT
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Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"


There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Chinese Proverb


If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Amelia Barr


...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...

Henry Fielding


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

Samuel Ullman


Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy


Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Ben J. Wattenberg


The plural of anecdote is data.

C. E. Montague


To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

Bernard Edmonds


To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

Mae West


You're never too old to become younger.

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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 ...

Blue Horizon Final Press Conference quotes (East Side Boxing)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:19:23 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. .

Quips & Quotes (Eagle-Tribune Online)

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:25:27 GMT
"I think it's a sign of the times." — North Andover police Chief Richard Stanley on the recent spate of violence in his town. Wednesday a psychotherapist was stabbed to death while visiting a client at his Walker Road apartment.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:42:26 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,767.28 (+33.56) MDAX8,646.16 (+53.73) Adidas 42.11 (+0.43) Allianz 115.70 (+0.43) BASF 83...

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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