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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous--a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Oscar Wilde


It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

Ed Lindeman


If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

John Wilson


Oh for a book and a shady nook...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself

Leo C. Rosten


Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

Benjamin Disraeli


Ignorance never settles a question.

W. H. Murray


...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

Edwin Booth


An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:31:07 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,771.98 (-49.05) MDAX8,939.19 (- 178.98) Adidas 41.82 (-0.47) Allianz 131.89 (-1.32) BASF ...

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Apr 8 (INO News)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:18:17 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Tue, Apr 08, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

FACTBOX-Quotes from Iraq commander's testimony (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:31:00 GMT
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Terence, Andria


Moderation in all things.

Thomas Carlyle


When words leave off, music begins.

Saint Francis of Assisi


Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

William J. Broad


The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

unattributed truth from r.g.frp


It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file.

Rudolf Virchow


The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Carl Sandburg


There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Anonymous


When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:41:20 GMT
"To create damage to property or danger to other people is just as bad as the human rights violations they are protesting.''

Can't find stock quotes? Call the Central Library (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:50:00 GMT
It is tax season, and many individuals are trying to find stock quotes via free financial websites, such as Yahoo Finance. The problem is that historical stock quotes for companies such as Bausch & Lomb have disappeared from these free web sites. Librarians at the Central Library can get this info.

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:30:57 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index 5,990.20(- 24.60)(- 0.41%) BAT Industries   1,898.00(+7.00)(+ 0.37%) BP Amoco         537.00(+1.50)(+ 0.28%) Diageo     ...

Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:25:37 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.

Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright's incendiary quotes illuminate chasm between races (Dallas Morning News)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:03:48 GMT
The incendiary quotes of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright were like the O.J. Simpson verdict: a cultural lightning bolt illuminating a chasm between the races, followed by thunderous arguments.

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Georgia O'Keeffe


If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

Minor White


No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

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.

Harold S. Hulbert


Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death


No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage.

Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrants, 1920


Shut up he explained.

Elaine Agather


The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

William Shakespeare


The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.

Eugene V. Debs


When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

Ken Flaton


If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you.

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Bob Ekstrom, Pitt, MN


Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.

Charles Reade


Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Aristotle Onassis


If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Hellen Keller


When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Agatha Christie


Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Cicero


What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Mitchell Burgess


Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

Federico Fellini


A different language is a different vision of life.

David Chambless


Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

Hans Konig


For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.

Jan Glidewell


You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

John Herschel


Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

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OK KO Live Monday's Close (KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:40:05 GMT
Associated Press - April 8, 2008 11:25 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Here are Monday's closing cattle and hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:45:47 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.April 7April 6Difference New York Dow Jones 12,694.1712,609.42(+84.75) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,385.51 2,370.98(+14.53) TokyoNikkei13,450.2313,293.22(+ 157.01) Syd...

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:41:20 GMT
"To create damage to property or danger to other people is just as bad as the human rights violations they are protesting.''

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:31:27 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,575.6312,612.43(-36.80) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,353.15 2,364.83(-11.68) TokyoNikkei13,250.4313,450.23(- 199.80) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,634....

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:31:10 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

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William Cobbett


Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

W. Somerset Maugham


We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Eleanor Roosevelt


Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Unknown


Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Barbara Sher


Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

General Omar Bradley


Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004


All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Albert Camus


Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread

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Quotes & Comments (Western Herald)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:32:24 GMT
"Making more abortions available is not the answer. Women need to be educated about their rights over their body and given opportunities to plan their families, but it must be done in a way that protects public morality."

Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.401 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:55:55 GMT
The Canadian Press April 4, 2008 - 12:52 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.401 oz., $591.59 kg.; Thursday $18.462 oz., $593.55 kg.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:29:51 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX6,821.03 (+ 57.64) MDAX 9,118.17 (+ 50.49) Adidas42.29 (+0.27) Allianz133.21 (+0.13) BASF89....

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:29:48 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....