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Edward Gibbon


We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X chap 4


You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

Ralph Kiner


Kevin McReynolds stops at third and he scores.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino


It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

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Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - She quotes Dr. Norman Relkin, head of a memory disorders program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as blaming such slips largely on normal shrinkage of the human brain.

Japan's auto sales elsewhere in Asia to top domestic sales in 2008 ...

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Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:01:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "Kosovo is Serbia and we will never surrender, despite blackmail by the European Union." — Serbian government official Dragan Deletic to a crowd of 5,000 Serbs protesting Kosovo ...

TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Macroeconomics highlights to 10:10 GMT

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Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

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Niels Bohr


Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

H. L. Mencken


Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.

Mark Twain


It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. - from Pudd'nhead Wilson

Jack London, The Call of the Wild


There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

George Bernard Shaw


You see things and you say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say, Why not

James Goldsmith


Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

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FCC-Led Discussion to Focus on 'Net Surfers, Providers Rights

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:28:00 GMT
FOX News - The flier includes quotations from several civil rights groups criticizing Martin's policies on media ownership. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was quoted as claiming Martin supports a ...

On day scripted for him, Appleby comes up cold

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:02:00 GMT
Tacoma News Tribune - The problem with sports, once in a while, is that the game everybody pays to see can ruin the event everyone wants to watch. That sounds like something out of the Quotations of ...

China, Japan vow to solve sea dispute - report

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:35:00 GMT
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Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:07:00 GMT
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - She quotes Dr. Norman Relkin, head of a memory disorders program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as blaming such slips largely on normal shrinkage of the human brain.

Comcast, Verizon to be on the hot seat at FCC forum in Boston

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:17:00 GMT
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell


Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses

Colin Greenwood


It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment.

George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings


Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

Yiddish Proverb


True poverty does not come from God.

Francois Fenelon


Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Toni Morrison


She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Bertrand Russell


Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000


But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

Lillian Hellman


Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

G. E. Lessing


One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel


The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

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Benazir's blueprint

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:28:00 GMT
Deccan Herald - In furtherance of her thesis, she quotes at length a number of Muslim scholars. For those who have spent the better part of the past decade making the same argument, this chapter ...

Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

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Famous Quotations for Today

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Lord Chesterfield


Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

President George Bush, to New Hampshire legislators


Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.

Adam L. Gordon


Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

Terminator 2 Judgment Day


John Connor No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say affirmative, or some shit like that. You say no problemo. And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say eat me. And if you want to shine them on it's hasta la vista, baby.

Pablo Picasso


Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

There's Something About Mary


Mary I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but beer. That's my ad, print it up.

Father Andrew SDC


When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.

Jennifer Aniston


Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."

Walter Linn


It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Seneca


Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

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Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:07:00 GMT
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - She quotes Dr. Norman Relkin, head of a memory disorders program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as blaming such slips largely on normal shrinkage of the human brain.

Hank Steinbrenner second-guesses Yankee people, just like his father

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:08:00 GMT
New York Daily News - Those aren't just predictable quotes from a Steinbrenner, they're practically like a home movie. But here's a question: If Hank Steinbrenner thought Johan Santana was worth the ...

Japan successfully launches satellite for high-speed Internet access

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:16:00 GMT
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China, Japan vow to solve sea dispute - report

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Great Quotes

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Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold


When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

David Joseph Schwartz


Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Sir Winston Churchill, Reffering to the RAF


Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.

American Indian Proverb


Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

Jean Anouilh


To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.

Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)


Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

Toni Morrison


I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.

Sir W. Temple


Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

Samuel Butler


Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Unknown


Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

King Edward VIII


The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

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Medill Dean Taken to Task Over Quotations

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:55:00 GMT
Daily Herald - When David Spett, a Northwestern University journalism student, read an item by his dean, John Lavine, in an alumni magazine last spring, something didn't sit right with him. Some ...

Hank Steinbrenner second-guesses Yankee people, just like his father

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:08:00 GMT
New York Daily News - Those aren't just predictable quotes from a Steinbrenner, they're practically like a home movie. But here's a question: If Hank Steinbrenner thought Johan Santana was worth the ...

Right priorities: Motivational book asks: What would you do if you had ...

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:37:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - The preponderance of religious imagery and Bible quotations makes the book seem particularly aimed toward a Christian market. But Shook said "One Month to Live" is not solely for ...

'How could you . . . not be gay?'

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:58:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - As for the quotations, few people are this consistently clever, and, besides, most people don't go around tape-recording or taking notes on their own lives for the sake of later ...

Quotations of the day

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:01:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "Kosovo is Serbia and we will never surrender, despite blackmail by the European Union." — Serbian government official Dragan Deletic to a crowd of 5,000 Serbs protesting Kosovo ...

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