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Thomas Jefferson


Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5


"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

Confucius, Analects, IV.3


It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.

Honore de Balzac


Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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Chipbond to raise gold bumping quotes (Digi Times)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:33:34 GMT
Amid a run-up in the price of gold, Chipbond Technology plans to raise its corresponding gold bumping service quotes in the second quarter, and further adjustment will be made in the third quarter, said company chairman Fei-Jain Wu.

Quotations of the day (The Charlotte Observer)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:07:36 GMT
"I believe in God and everything, but he does things sometimes that make you wonder." - George Slayton, whose Piedmont, Mo., home was flooded from the heavy rain that has hit the Midwest. --- "During the last six years, the people of Afghanistan have made a bold, confident journey throwing off the burden of tyranny and winning your freedom. The process has been difficult, but the courage of the ...

In quotes: Tributes to Paul Scofield (BBC News)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:02:50 GMT
Friends and colleagues pay tribute to renowned actor Paul Scofield, who has died aged 86.

Chipbond to raise gold bumping quotes (Digi Times)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:33:34 GMT
Amid a run-up in the price of gold, Chipbond Technology plans to raise its corresponding gold bumping service quotes in the second quarter, and further adjustment will be made in the third quarter, said company chairman Fei-Jain Wu.

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Herbert Clark Hoover


Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"


If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

Catherine Drinker Bowen


Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Mata Hari


The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

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F1: Malaysia preview quotes: Force India (autosport.com)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:31:53 GMT
Malaysia preview quotes: Force India

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.101 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:50 GMT
The Canadian Press March 19, 2008 - 12:44 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.101 oz., $614.10 kg.; Tuesday $20.694 oz., $665.31 kg.

Quotations of the day (The Charlotte Observer)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:07:36 GMT
"I believe in God and everything, but he does things sometimes that make you wonder." - George Slayton, whose Piedmont, Mo., home was flooded from the heavy rain that has hit the Midwest. --- "During the last six years, the people of Afghanistan have made a bold, confident journey throwing off the burden of tyranny and winning your freedom. The process has been difficult, but the courage of the ...

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:36:15 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT 100 Index     5,495.20(- 50.40)(- 0.92%) BAT Industries     1,880.00(+1.00)(+ 0.05%) BP Amoco           496.00(- 15.50)(- 3.03%) D...

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin


No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Sextus Propertius, Elegies


Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

Charles Dickens


I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Virgil


Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious.

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Wrap-up of entertainment quotes (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:50:18 GMT
"I meant no disrespect to Ms. Jennifer Garner when I met her at the Oscars and apologize if I made her uncomfortable." — Gary Busey, apologizing for awkwardly embracing Garner on the red carpet at the Oscars last month.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:37:28 GMT
"I believe in God and everything, but he does things sometimes that make you wonder.'' -- George Slayton Slayton, whose Piedmont, Mo., home was flooded from the heavy rain that has hit the Midwest.

F1: Malaysia preview quotes: McLaren (autosport.com)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:08:04 GMT
Malaysia preview quotes: McLaren

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Arsenio Hall


On doing another talk show It would be like going back to a relationship. Ever do that You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left

Arnold Palmer


Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Rachel Carson


For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

George Bernard Shaw


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Ghandi, 1931


Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Eugene Lam


Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

Russell Baker


I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Marlon Brando


An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Pia Melody


You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.

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In quotes: Tributes to Paul Scofield (BBC News)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:53:52 GMT
Friends and colleagues pay tribute to renowned actor Paul Scofield, who has died aged 86.

Arrest Affidavit Quotes Slain Plantation Lawyer (NBC 6 Miami)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:03 GMT
An arrest affidavit for the suspect in the killing of a Plantation lawyer featured quotes from an e-mail written by the victim.

ILSCO Personnel Changes (ThomasNet)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:51:05 GMT
The ILSCO Corporation is pleased to announce the promotion of Mrs. Pam Federle to Quotations Analyst for the ILSCO brand of electrical connectors. Pam's five years of experience in customer service and order entry will be of considerable value to her in this new position. The ILSCO Corporation is pleased to announce the promotion of Mr. Randy Shelley to Product Specialist. Randy's nine years of ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:30:57 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.March 20 March 19Difference...

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.365 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:11:39 GMT
The Canadian Press March 20, 2008 - 1:52 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thurrsday $18.365 oz., $590.43 kg.; Wednesday $19.101 oz., $614.10 kg.

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T. S. Eliot


We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

Napoleon Bonaparte


History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Job 3831 Bible


Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion

Mignon McLaughlin


Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'

Lao Tzu


There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Pope John XXIII


Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Thomas Crum


What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

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