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Confucius, The Confucian Analects


The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

C. C. Colton


No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Florence Nightingale


You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Harvey Mindess


Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

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Advertisement starts (Tiscali)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:09:40 GMT
-- an Arabic term sometimes translated as "strife" -- intersperses images of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran, Islam’s holy book.

Muslim hardliners in Indonesia rally over Dutch film (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:51:00 GMT
About 50 members of a hardline Indonesian Muslim group held a rowdy protest outside the Dutch embassy on Monday, calling for the death of a Dutch lawmaker behind a film accusing the Koran of inciting violence.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $19.336 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:11:29 GMT
The Canadian Press March 27, 2008 - 1:56 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.; Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:39:49 GMT
"Well, again, I don't take anything for granted, but hopefully with Pennsylvania's help, she will be our next president, and yes, I do think she'll be a better president.'' -- Chelsea Clinton, when asked in Allentown, Pa., if she thought her mother would be a better president than her father.

FACTBOX: Quotes from "Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:07:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Dith Pran, whose ordeal at the hands of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime was depicted in the movie "The Killing Fields," became a crusader for the restoration of his homeland.

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H Hahn Blavatsky


Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.

Niccola Sebastiani


If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance.

Paula Giddings


I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Ayn Rand


Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Spanish Proverb


Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Robert South


Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Peter Handke


I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist

Alain


When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.

Kahlil Gibran


I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

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Iran summons Dutch ambassador over Koran film-report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:09:55 GMT
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador on Sunday to protest against a film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, state radio said.

My Favorite Quotes and Quips (The Lexington News-Gazette)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:27:59 GMT
I'm a word guy, and my office wall here at home is plastered with pithy quotes, sayings, poetry (questionable), and inspiration that I've been collecting for half a century.

Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:14:56 GMT
``I don't want to be the pretty girl. I just want to dress up and look terrible on TV. You know, I've always wanted to be the ugly stepsister or the person with the problem.'' — Tracey Ullman.

Muslim hardliners in Indonesia rally over Dutch film (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:51:00 GMT
About 50 members of a hardline Indonesian Muslim group held a rowdy protest outside the Dutch embassy on Monday, calling for the death of a Dutch lawmaker behind a film accusing the Koran of inciting violence.

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.215 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:11:21 GMT
The Canadian Press March 26, 2008 - 12:59 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.; Tuesday $18.641 oz., $599.31 kg.

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Norman Cousins


The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Jerome Blattner


A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.

George Carlin


Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?

Katherine Mansfield


Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Aldous Huxley


It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu


He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Voltaire


'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'

Sigmund Freud


A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Napolean Hill


Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Robert Frost


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000


The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

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Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.839 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:55:44 GMT
The Canadian Press March 28, 2008 - 1:53 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.839 oz., $605.67 kg.; Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $19.336 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:11:29 GMT
The Canadian Press March 27, 2008 - 1:56 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.; Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.

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Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim


Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!

Edna St. Vincent Millay


My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends,
It gives a lovely light.

Laertius Diogenes


When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'

Author Unknown


Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl


Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way.

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Martinsville: GM Racing race quotes, notes (Motorsport.com)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:59:49 GMT
Martinsville, VA - March 30, 2008 - Jeff Burton, No. 31 AT&T Impala SS left a damp and dreary Martinsville Speedway sitting a-top the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) standings after a solid third-place finish in the Goody's Cool Orange 500. He holds a 39-point lead over his Richard Childress Racing teammate, Kevin Harvick, No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Impala SS, with six races of the 36-race 2008 ...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:44:29 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of the index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX6,559.90 (-18.16) MDAX 8,761.03 (-14.61) Adidas0.4241.78 (-0.22) Allianz 3.80 126.06 (+3.60) BAS...

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Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:34:24 GMT
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What they're saying about Champlain College program (Boston Globe)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:38:15 GMT
Quotes about Champlain College's program for refugee scholarships: "It gives people who've lost everything an opportunity to add this crucial part that will make them more successful in our country, but also allows them to regain a piece of their identity."

Iran summons Dutch ambassador over Koran film-report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:09:55 GMT
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador on Sunday to protest against a film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, state radio said.

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Mark Twain


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Jean Anouilh


Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Harry S Truman


When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling


Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Nicolas Boileau


If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure

Thomas Mann


As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

John Burrough


I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"


As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.

Norm Crosby


When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Danish proverb


Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:44:29 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of the index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX6,559.90 (-18.16) MDAX 8,761.03 (-14.61) Adidas0.4241.78 (-0.22) Allianz 3.80 126.06 (+3.60) BAS...

My Favorite Quotes and Quips (The Lexington News-Gazette)

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:27:59 GMT
I'm a word guy, and my office wall here at home is plastered with pithy quotes, sayings, poetry (questionable), and inspiration that I've been collecting for half a century.

Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.839 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:55:44 GMT
The Canadian Press March 28, 2008 - 1:53 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.839 oz., $605.67 kg.; Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $19.336 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:11:29 GMT
The Canadian Press March 27, 2008 - 1:56 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.; Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.

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