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Louise Erdrich


They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Thomas Edward Bodett


They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Young


We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

W. H. Davies


What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

May Sarton


We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Albert Gallatin


The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Gerard Hargraves


Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power.

George Bernard Shaw


I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you.

C. Chesterfield


Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds

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Miguel de Cervantes


Man have to have friends even in hell.

David Thomas


The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.

Novalis


The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Ukranian Proverb


Love tells us many things that are not so.

Janos Arnay


In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Earl Warren


The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Euripides


I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Henry Brougham


It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

Henry David Thoreau


Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:37:18 GMT
"The people there are being subjected to mistreatment that is not acceptable with the conduct of a world power, which China is.'' -- U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain speaking against a Chinese crackdown on anti-government demonstrations by Tibetans.

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George Barrell Cheever


Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

Epicurus


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

George Bernard Shaw


Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

George Gurdjieff


Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Bradley Miller


Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Al Rogers


In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:36:15 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Quotes, Boxscore After Tennessee's NCAA Win Over American (The Chattanoogan)

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:17:38 GMT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Quotes and boxscore after Tennessee's 72-57 victory over American on Friday in the NCAA men's basketball tournment. THE MODERATOR: We'll start with an opening statement by Coach Pearl and then take questions for the student athletes.

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Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:31:33 GMT
Malaysia Saturday quotes: Bridgestone

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Quintilian


When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Margaret Mead


For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Virginia


One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield


In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:45:55 GMT
"The people there are being subjected to mistreatment that is not acceptable with the conduct of a world power, which China is.'' -- U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain speaking against a Chinese crackdown on anti-government demonstrations by Tibetans.

F1: Malaysia Saturday quotes: Red Bull (autosport.com)

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:16:46 GMT
Malaysia Saturday quotes: Red Bull

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:45:55 GMT
"The people there are being subjected to mistreatment that is not acceptable with the conduct of a world power, which China is.'' -- U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain speaking against a Chinese crackdown on anti-government demonstrations by Tibetans.

Quotations of the day (AP via Yahoo! News)

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:58:34 GMT
"This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years." — Bill Burton, a spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, following the disclosure that three contract employees of the State Department had looked at the candidate's passport file.

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Today's Famous Quotes:

L. Schefer


The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Alfred North Whitehead


It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World

H. L. Mencken


A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Henry David Thoreau


I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Johann von Goethe


Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Buddy Hackett


Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.

William Cowper


Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.

Woodrow Wilson


I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Raymond Chandler


She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

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