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Miguel de Cervantes


The pen is the tongue of the mind.

George Bernard Shaw


All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

Charles Caleb Colton


To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

Edward Gibbon


All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

C. C. Colton


To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the dust descend.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:54:00 GMT
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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:42:00 GMT
Daily Mail - All sorts of people to whom the ticker-tape machine had been a hitherto alien mystery were whipping out the early editions of afternoon papers to catch the 1.30pm quotations from ...

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:46:00 GMT
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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:30:00 GMT
Newark Star-Ledger - Though Morogiello has included genuine quotations from the master, he can write his own epigrams that sound convincingly Shavian, such as "The truth is always terrible.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:44:00 GMT
ninemsn - LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on Tuesday after a slide from record peaks a day ago on expectations that a Federal Reserve interest rate cut will hit the U.S. dollar ...

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Samuel Johnson


Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Author Unknown


To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.

Aristotle


The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)


It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

A. C. Benson


One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Jean de La Fontaine


We heed no instincts but our own.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:42:00 GMT
ninemsn - AP - A Singapore Airlines A380, the world's biggest plane, has taken off from Singapore for London on its first commercial flight to Europe. With 449 passengers on board, flight ...

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:03:00 GMT
ninemsn - AP - A French court has ordered the release from prison of a Societe Generale trader accused of a massive fraud at the bank. Jerome Kerviel wanted a provisional release from Paris ...

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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:24:00 GMT
CNBC - Volume traded fell to 2.37 billion shares from 3.15 billion shares on Friday, when trading was unusually high due to the settlement of special quotations for futures and options ...

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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:39:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place." — The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans, calling for an international ...

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Seneca


To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

William F. Claire


I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

John Kenneth Galbraith


Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

John Stuart Mill


Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

Robert Altman


Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. Irony is a cheap shot.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Playboy Interview - December 1963


Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling.

Richard Ingrams


It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.

Jeremy Schwartz


Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:35:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "When need be, we'll act decisively in a way that continues to bring order to financial markets.'' -- President Bush, trying to calm turmoil in the financial markets. "What we are ...

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:50:00 GMT
ninemsn - A $400 million conversion program at OneSteel's Whyalla steelworks should extend the life of the operations to 2027, South Australian Deputy Premier Kevin Foley says. In Whyalla to ...

Tokyo shares close sharply lower on strong yen, credit crisis fears ...

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:24:00 GMT
CNBC - Volume traded fell to 2.37 billion shares from 3.15 billion shares on Friday, when trading was unusually high due to the settlement of special quotations for futures and options ...

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ninemsn - AP - A Singapore Airlines A380, the world's biggest plane, has taken off from Singapore for London on its first commercial flight to Europe. With 449 passengers on board, flight ...

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Author Unknown


The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.

P.T. Barnum


Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

David T. Wolf


Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

Ossian Lang


The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them.

Abraham Lincoln


If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:16:00 GMT
ninemsn - SHANGHAI, March 18 (Reuters) - Aluminum Corp of China Ltd 2600.HK> 601600.SS>, the country's top producer of the metal, expects the country's production of primary aluminium to ...

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:46:00 GMT
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R. D. Laing


Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004


Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Oscar Levant


I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

Allard Lowenstein, O Magazine, September 2002


The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)


The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:46:00 GMT
ninemsn - The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears likely to raise official interest rates again in coming months, after the minutes of its March board meeting suggested further ...

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:35:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "When need be, we'll act decisively in a way that continues to bring order to financial markets.'' -- President Bush, trying to calm turmoil in the financial markets. "What we are ...

Reading Films

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:01:00 GMT
Egypt Today - From Hollywood Lesbians and Off Screen/On Screen to The Dictionary of Film Quotations, whole libraries have been published, all in the name of cashing in on anything that is even ...

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