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Mark Twain


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

Charles Baudelaire


It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Dean Gordon Brown


Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

Neil Kinnock


I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

Thomas Paine


When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Henri Frdric Amiel


Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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Stock & fund quotes

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:30:00 GMT
ninemsn - SHANGHAI/BEIJING, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Baosteel Group has agreed on behalf of Chinese steel mills to pay 65 percent more for iron ore supplied by Brazilian miner Vale, and 71 percent ...

Security cams for more schools

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:48:00 GMT
Trinidad Express - Hardeo said principals of several other schools have requested quotations for the systems. "The principals came to me and told me about the problems they have encountered at the ...

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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Robert Jones Burdette


There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

Thomas Alva Edison


Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

Pamela Vaull Starr


Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio


History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh


The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:57:22 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

J school dean used anon. quotes in newsletter

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:42:00 GMT
CNEWS - Canada and International News ... EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern University said it is reviewing the use of unnamed sources and "the veracity of quotations" in writings by the dean ...

Canadian dollar rises 0.16 of a cent to close at 98.88 cents US

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:27:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9849, up 1.80 cents and US$1.9627, up 2.10 cents. The euro was worth C$1.4983, up 0.83 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets

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.

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Baltasar Gracian


Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Plato


All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Sir Thomas More


Friendship demands attention.

Jules Feiffer


At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Lyndon B. Johnson


The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Herman Cain


Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Chinese Proverb


When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

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Northwestern reviews dean's use of anonymous quotes

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:51:00 GMT
Quad-Cities Times - EVANSTON, Ill. - 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 ...

Much Memory Loss Is Normal

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:48:00 GMT
MSN Entertainment - Lear, a former articles editor at The New York Times, strews her chatty and informative book with anecdotes and quotations from scientists. She seems to have met as many ...

UW men's hockey: The book on Connelly

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:27:00 GMT
Wisconsin State Journal - It's filled with inspirational quotations, precise diagrams, distinct objectives and random insights that have tremendous meaning to the author.

US university reviews journalism school dean's use of anonymous quotes ...

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT
MSN UK News - 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 ...

Journalism dean apologizes for quotes (UPI)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:10:08 GMT
The dean of Northwestern University's journalism school in Illinois apologized to faculty and students for using unidentified sources in an alumni magazine.

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Abraham Lincoln


No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Cornelius Tacitus


There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Aldous Huxley


At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

Thomas Alva Edison


Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

Alexander Smith


Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

John Perry Barlow


But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

Unknown


One who thinks by the inch and talks by the mile should be kicked by the foot.

Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"


The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

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China money brokers halt onshore FX swap quotes (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:25:46 GMT
SHANGHAI, Feb 21 - China's two biggest money brokers have stopped providing quotes for onshore foreign exchange forward contracts and swaps, apparently because of pressure from the country's foreign exchange regulator.

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.

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Feb 21 (INO News)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:23:23 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Thu, Feb 21, 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.

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Steward Alsop


A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.

Bob Talbert


Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Virgil


I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

French Proverb


Set a thief to catch a thief.

Johann von Goethe


The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.

Sir Arthur Helps


Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Swiss Proverb


When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything.

Michel de Montaigne


Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince


We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Allan K. Chalmers


The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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Foreign professors raise angst

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:20:00 GMT
Tribune de Genève - The Tribune quotes locally trained professors complaining of problems of a clash of cultures with outsiders who fail to integrate in the local society and who do not speak French.

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Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:57:00 GMT
Fininfo - Malgré les incertitudes, les sorties commerciales de femtocells augmenteront, comme l'indiquent les RFQ (Request for Quotes) des principaux opérateurs mobiles ...

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