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Henry L. Mencken


The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

J. C. Penny


I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

Albert Einstein


Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Alan Marshall Beck


Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

Aesop


Appearances often are deceiving.

Lord Byron


Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.

Aristotle


Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Erma Bombeck


If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Jean Kerr


One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King


The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time.

Kahlil Gibran


And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Clive Staples Lewis


Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

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Pakistan says has "breakthrough" in Bhutto case (AlertNet)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:54:10 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, details, background) ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Pakistani police probing the assassination of Benazir Bhutto said on Wednesday they had made a "major breakthrough" when ...

Quotes From the 2008 Candidates

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:03:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - ``Today the change we seek swept through the Chesapeake and over the Potomac. We won the state of Maryland. We won the commonwealth of Virginia. And though we won in Washington, D.C., this movement ...

Leah Garchik: Overheard love quotes, part 2 (San Francisco Chronicle)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:18:54 GMT
Valentine's Day is Thursday, and today we find ourselves beyond first encounter, beyond cuddling and beyond dreamy-eyed breakfast together. We pick up this series of overheard quotes after "dating" has become a love affair. In the February of a relationship,...

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

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:14:27 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday. --- DEMOCRATS

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Rodan of Alexandria


Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Nicholas Butler


The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness


The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Henry Miller


What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it

Matthew 821-22


And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me and let the dead bury their dead.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times

Martha Stewart


I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

Dr. Seuss


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

Chinese Proverb


Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

Mahatma Gandhi


Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

George Bernard Shaw


The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence


Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

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Fightin' Blue Hens report: Notes, quotes

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:21:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Delaware has taken care of the ball well all season but was forced into 19 turnovers by VCU's pressure defense. More concerning, Delaware forced only six turnovers from the Rams. --Delaware remains ...

Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:08:13 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday. "Today the change we seek swept through the Chesapeake and over the Potomac. We won the state of Maryland. We won the commonwealth of Virginia.

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Jim Lehrer


I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)

Charles Manson


You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Unknown


Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Joseph Conrad


The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

H. L. Mencken


The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

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Golden Panthers report: Notes, quotes

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:28:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --FIU has five regular-season Sun Belt games left to salvage something positive from what will most likely be its eighth consecutive losing season in Sun Belt play. There is some hope for a positive ...

Fuel subsidy a time bomb

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:05:00 GMT
Jakarta Post - The market applauded Megawati for floating domestic fuel prices on international market quotations in Singapore in 2002. But she annulled the policy in 2004, presumably in a bid to gain more votes in ...

Oilers report: Notes, quotes

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:03:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Defenseman Tom Gilbert seems to have hit a bit of a wall. Steady and reliable all season, he's a troubling minus-12 in his last 11 games. Included in that mix are a minus-3 and a minus-4 game ...

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Bruce Kemper


Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Lord William Beveridge


The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

C. S. Lewis


Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching


Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Neva Cole


Our job is not to straighten each other out, But to help each other up.

Joyce


Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius


If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

George Bernard Shaw


Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Lawrence Peter Berra


It gets late early out there.

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A story about the Broward Sheriff's Office's semiannual awards ceremony... (Miami Herald)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:11:20 GMT
A story about the Broward Sheriff's Office's semiannual awards ceremony, which appeared on Page 2B of the Broward edition on Feb. 6, included several paragraphs that should have been attributed to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Details and quotations from the Sun-Sentinel story, including the comments of civilian honoree John Clark, were used in The Herald's report on the event without ...

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Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:30:00 GMT
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Alexandre Dumas


All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks


Union gives strength.

George Bernard Shaw


As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Nancy Astor


I married beneath me - all women do.

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QUOTATIONS OF THE DAY (Williamson Daily News)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:44:36 GMT
‘‘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.’’

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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:08:00 GMT
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Bookkeeper accused of stealing $400K from fishing fleet supplier

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:07:00 GMT
Fosters Daily Democrat - In an affidavit filed in Cumberland County Superior Court, the company's president quotes Coppersmith's lawyer as saying his client had been making unauthorized payments from Vessel Services' checking ...

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