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Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott


Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Jerry Coleman


There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.


Wisdom comes with winters.

Marge Piercy, Circles in the Water "Intruding"


The price of seeing is silence.

Virginia Woolf


Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations


How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Samuel Goldwyn


I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Malcom X, My counselor, Mrs. Ross


I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Spiro Agnew


To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Eugene Ionesco


It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Terry Pratchet, Sourcery


I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?
Death thought about it.
Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.

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Laurence J. Peter


In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Norman Douglas


There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Moses Hadas


Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

G. C. Lichtenberg


The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Bob Dylan


He not busy being born is busy dying.

Proverbs 137 Bible


There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Robert C. Byrd


One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Will Rogers


There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.

William H. Borah


My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

J. D. Salinger


Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

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Samuel Johnson


An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Shirley Temple


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:23:10 GMT
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Daytona 500: Kyle Petty Happy Hour quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:43:11 GMT
ARE HAPPY HOUR TIMES AN INDICATOR OF HOW GOOD YOUR CAR IS? "Our car is a lot better than it was all week long. Our guys worked really, really hard. The Evernham Engines are a lot better here than what we had in the 150s. We struggled there.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:42:35 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

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Blaise Pascal


Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Voltaire


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

Robert Green Ingersoll


If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Vince Lombardi


After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

Marcus Valerius Martialis


There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul


Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

John Holt


...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

George Seaton Bowes


The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:11:00 GMT
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Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:40:00 GMT
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War and oil color view of Bush: quotes from Africa (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:11:00 GMT
(Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is scheduled to begin a five-day African tour this weekend that focuses on the successes of his projects, particularly in combating AIDS and malaria.

Daytona: Ford NASCAR Nationwide Qualifying Quotes, Recap

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:18:00 GMT
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Quotes on the economy (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:53:45 GMT
Some quotes from the Senate Banking Committee's hearing on the economy, with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission:

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Francois De La Rochefoucauld


In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.

Voltaire


Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Oscar Wilde


Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Henry David Thoreau


Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Maya Angelou


In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

General George Catlett Marshall


Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Thomas Jonathan [Stonewall] Jackson, last words, 10 May 1863.


Let us cross the river, and rest under the trees.

Confucius


Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.057 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:01:45 GMT
The Canadian Press February 14, 2008 - 12:45 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $18.057 oz., $580.53 kg.; Wednesday $17.883 oz., $574.94 kg.

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Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:23:00 GMT
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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:52:00 GMT
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