Daily Famous Quotations

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Terry Pratchet, (on the big bang theory)


In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.

Author Unknown


A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Langston Hughes, uThe Black Man Speaksu


I swear to the LordI still can't seeWhy Democracy meansEverybody but me.

Seneca


If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Kenneth Branaugh


Adults are just children who earn money.

Robert Doisneau


Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Herbert Clark Hoover


I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him.

Pablo Picasso


We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels",1911


Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Author Unknown


Education is not received. It is achieved.

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Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:45:23 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism.

Posted By: Hitz

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:54:00 GMT
Manhattan Mercury - Searching the internet about this quote, I found it in several books of quotations. The earliest I saw was in 1989. They did say it couldn't be verified as actually written by ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:11:00 GMT
ninemsn - SINGAPORE, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Oil and gold hovered near lifetime highs while silver hit its highest in 27 years on Thursday as investors rushed back into commodities to seek ...

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Samuel Butler


All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3


Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.

Hartley Coleridge


She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me;
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.


Lord Chesterfield


Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

John Gay


The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Buddha


It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

James Thurber


The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Richard Milhous Nixon


I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

William Hazlitt


We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

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Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (The Charlotte Observer)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:07:05 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism. John Lavine cited unnamed students in two introductory letters he wrote for Medill's alumni magazine last year. One of the quotes, attributed to a Medill junior, praised a particular advertising class, saying in part: ...

Stock & fund quotes

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:17:00 GMT
ninemsn - Transport and logistics firm Toll Holdings Ltd says it has received expressions of interest for its majority stake in airline Virgin Blue Ltd. "In the last three months the VBA (Virgin Blue) board has ...

Northwestern Reviews Dean's Use Of Anonymous Quote (CBS 2 Chicago)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:24:35 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of the Medill School of Journalism.

Quotes from the 2008 candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:51:11 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday.

Northwestern reviews quotes used by dean (The Charlotte Observer)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:07:05 GMT
Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean of its prestigious Medill School of Journalism. John Lavine cited unnamed students in two introductory letters he wrote for Medill's alumni magazine last year. One of the quotes, attributed to a Medill junior, praised a particular advertising class, saying in part: ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity


What if there had been room at the inn?

Dave Preston


He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.

Charles Caleb Colton


Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, 'If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.' Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.

Louis Vermeil


The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.

Ellen DeGeneres


In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine


Strength is the outcome of need.

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Icers' coach uses quotes to motivate team (Penn State Collegian)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:13:25 GMT
Scott Balboni, top right, yells at his team during a game vs. Drexel earlier this season. Balboni posts motivational quotes in the Icers' locker room.

New record of oil prices sends stock markets down again

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:21:00 GMT
Pravda - Prices on petroleum products skyrocketed after the accident, which technically contributed to the growth of oil quotations. The decline of the dollar rate and a possible reduction of OPEC’s oil ...

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Elbert Hubbard


Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Thomas Jefferson


Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


We always like those who admire us we do not always like those whom we admire.

Albert Einstein


There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it

Thomas Mann


Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Albert Pine


What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

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Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:57:00 GMT
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USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Feb 20 (INO News)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:04:50 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Wed, Feb 20, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

16 Medill faculty members pressure journalism dean on anonymous quotes (Chicago Tribune)

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:39:42 GMT
Northwestern University begins investigation of John Lavine's use of unnamed sources and 'veracity of the quotations' Faculty at Northwestern University 's journalism school said Tuesday that they "are deeply troubled" about their dean's use of anonymous sources in his alumni magazine columns and called on him to provide proof that he didn't fabricate the quotes.

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W. Somerset Maugham


I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Publilius Syrus


Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Jean Sibelius


Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

Benjamin Franklin


Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

W. Somerset Maugham


The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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The Worst You Can Say About: Hillary Clinton

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:57:00 GMT
AOL - Now, the article lists as its primary source something called "Alec Flegon's Dictionary of English Sex Quotations (London: Flegon Press, 1996) Problem is, it doesn't exist, at least not on Google or ...

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Feb 19 (INO News)

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:02:34 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Tue, Feb 19, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:12:15 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

16 Medill faculty members pressure journalism dean on anonymous quotes (Chicago Tribune)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:31:28 GMT
NU opens inquiry into use of unnamed sources Sixteen faculty members at Northwestern University 's journalism school wrote Tuesday they are "deeply troubled" about their dean's use of anonymous sources in his alumni magazine columns and called on him to provide proof that he did not fabricate the quotes.

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

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:06:28 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday. --- DEMOCRATS

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