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Richard Milhous Nixon


I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)

Gore Vidal


Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Fidel Castro


I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

George Bernard Shaw


I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Billy Joel


It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Hannah Arendt


Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Hellen Keller


We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Kahlil Gibran


Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Harlan Ellison.


The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Michael Jackson, 2Bad


Look who�s standing if you please, �though you tried to bring me to my knees.

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An Occasional Note on the 2008 Campaigns, No. 3

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:24:00 GMT
Scoop - Having decided how the battle will be framed, reporters then go out and get the quotes that fit in that framework, a framework poured from the imperfect crucible of exit polls.

Quotes of 2007 (US News & World Report)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:03:31 GMT
I loved Mort Zuckerman's editorial "What They Should Have Said" January 14], giving his one-liner offerings to famous, mainly political notables..

Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:14:27 GMT
``Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.'' — A representative for the New York City medical examiner. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment Jan. 22.

Ukrainian News Agency

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:21:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0550-5.0620 UAH/USD, then rose to 5.0580-5.0630 UAH/USD and by the end of the ...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero


For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

John Lancaster Spalding


Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

Gertrude Stein


The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Saki


The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

D. W. Brogan


For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

Anon.


Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk

William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman


Who will bell the cat?

Jose Simon


In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.

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Quotations of the day

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:06:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "Of course I fear for my life when the police intelligence service say that some people have concrete plans to kill me. But I have turned fear into anger and resentment." — Kurt Westergaard, a ...

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:45:35 GMT
"I consider this incident a coup attempt against the state by Reinado and it failed ... This government won't fall because of this.'' -- East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao on rebel soldiers shooting and seriously wounding that country's president and opening fire on him.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:42:27 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

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Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:

Jacques Martin Barzun


The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield


In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Victor Borge


The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Sam Walton


Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Anthony D'Angelo


When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

James Abram Garfield


If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Warren Bennis


People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Frederick Smith


Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

John Paul Jones


I have not yet begun to fight

Jack Handey


It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing.

Charles Dickens


Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"


Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

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Michael Parekowhai - Maori Hall

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:50:00 GMT
Scoop - Ideas of camaraderie, tools of teaching and childhood learning, as well as quotes from the canon of modern art history and popular culture openly play out in many of Parekowhai's stories.

Sugar Wanted (Cape Business News South Africa Business)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:17:47 GMT
URGENTLY quote your best CIF Harare price on the attached schedule, also indicating your delivery delay. Please let us have COA's together with your quotations.

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.

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Great Quotes

Quotes:

Greek Proverb


A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

John Sloan


Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

I. F. Stone


Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Gene Roddenberry


A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

George Gordon Byron


Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

La Rochefoucauld


We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

William James


Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Buddha


All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Erich Gutkind


The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

George Bernard Shaw


Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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Openwave Expands Client Product Portfolio With Key Product ...

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:03:00 GMT
Forbes - This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1943 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, material contained in quotations, increased ...

Vodafone in no hurry to deploy next generation mobile technology

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:24:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor its third party content providers shall be liable ...

Quotes of the week (BBC News)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:43:30 GMT
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Cher


If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Adam Smith


The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...

Alfred A. Knopf


An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Real Live Preacher


Im searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Cicero


Force overcome by force.

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Inflation wird handelbar

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:46:00 GMT
Boerse Online - In dieser Zeit dürften die Hauptumsätze getätigt werden. Ansonsten erfolgt ein kontinuierlicher Handel, bei dem Marketmaker auf Preisanfragen handelbare Quotes stellen.

Ungepatchte Schwachstelle in PHP-Nuke

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:44:00 GMT
TecChannel - Dazu muss allerdings „magic_quotes_gpc“ deaktiviert sein.Ebenso muss ein Angreifer wissen, wie das Prefix der Tabellen in der Datenbank heißt.

Report: Cell phone explosion may have killed man

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:42:00 GMT
CIO.de - The report quotes an unnamed police official as saying, "we presume that the cell phone battery exploded," but the official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the ...

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