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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Famous Quotes Update

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Paxton Hood


Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Dan Quayle


We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.

Martin Terman


In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

William Shakespeare


I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

Robertson Davies


Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Mother Theresa


I see God in every human being.

William Ellery Channing


Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Richard Milhous Nixon


I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now.

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"Four years on, the conflict in Darfur persists at extreme and unacceptable levels.'' -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saying that the suffering in the Sudanese region may have gotten worse in recent years.

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Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:29:27 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

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Ivan Pavlov


Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Peter Drucker


Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Tiberius


In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Grafitto


Bad spellers of the world, untie!

Daniel Webster


A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

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Alexander Pope


Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Mahatma Gandhi


As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003


First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Sir Philip Sidney


The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

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Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:31:00 GMT
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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.993 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:04:30 GMT
The Canadian Press April 2, 2008 - 12:52 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.993 oz., $578.47 kg.; Tuesday $17.834 oz., $573.36 kg.

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Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:38:49 GMT
"Here was a man who understood nonviolence at a depth that I had never known before.'' -- C.T. Vivian, a former associate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader's assassination.

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Lloyd Jones


The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.

Abraham Myerson


Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

Simone Weil


Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Henry David Thoreau


Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

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Dolly Parton


It takes a lot of money to look as cheap as I do.

Sir Philip Sidney


In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Jimi Hendrix


Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.

Homer, The Odyssey


May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince


It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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