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William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2


What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Saga


To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Johnny Carson


If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Fred Allen


Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.

Dan Cruickshank


In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past.

Edwin Teale


Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Sophie Kerr


The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Sir Walter Besant


A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Kate Reid


Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

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FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES ANTONIO TARVER & CLINTON WOODS, CHAD DAWSON & GLEN JOHNSON (Bragging Rights Corner)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:32:04 GMT
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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:45:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.9 April8 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,501.2112,576.44(-75.23) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,322.50 2,348.76(-26.26) TokyoNikkei13,111.8913,250.43(- 138.54) Sy...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:38:13 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,603.57 (- 100.75) MDAX8,809.68 (-53.55) Adidas 40.35 (-0.17) Allianz 127.78 (-2.54) BASF ...

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Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition


Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"


THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.

Sir Winston Churchill


The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Michael Pritchard


No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

John Locke


Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

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Phoenix: Toyota teams qualifying quotes (Motorsport.com)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:57:08 GMT
How was your qualifying lap and could you have gone quicker on the second lap? "We couldn't -- for some reason our car was better out there on the first lap. All in all, it was a pretty good run for us. The Snickers Toyota Camry has been pretty good since we unloaded it here today.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:38:53 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.11 April10 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,438.9212,581.98(- 143.06) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,320.36 2,351.70(-31.34) TokioNikkei13,323.7312,945.30(+ 378.43...

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Shirley Temple


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

John Holt


...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

George Barrell Cheever


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

Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.


Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Charles Baudelaire


It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Theodore Roosevelt


If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

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USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Apr 11 (INO News)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:01:58 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Fri, Apr 11, 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.

MI6: Gaming 2020 - The Top 5 Quotes (Gamasutra)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:16:05 GMT
Gamasutra will be featuring a full write-up of MI6's blockbuster closing 'Gaming 2020' session - featuring execs from Peter Moore through Nolan Bushnell talking the future of gaming - in the near future, but in the meantime, here's our top 5 quotes from the must-see session. With Wedbush senior analyst Michael Pachter acting as moderator, Ubisoft NA President Laurent Detoc, EA Sports President ...

Quotes from House hearings on Iraq (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:23:56 GMT
Some quotes from lawmakers during Wednesday's House hearings on Iraq, which featured testimony from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker:

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Niels Henrik David Bohr


We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough

G.K. Chesterton


The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Stephen Stills


There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Sir John Vanbrugh


Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $18.974 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:13:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 10, 2008 - 3:05 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $18.974 oz., $610.01 kg.; Wednesday $19.282 oz., $619.92 kg.

MI6: Gaming 2020 - The Top 5 Quotes (Gamasutra)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:16:05 GMT
Gamasutra will be featuring a full write-up of MI6's blockbuster closing 'Gaming 2020' session - featuring execs from Peter Moore through Nolan Bushnell talking the future of gaming - in the near future, but in the meantime, here's our top 5 quotes from the must-see session. With Wedbush senior analyst Michael Pachter acting as moderator, Ubisoft NA President Laurent Detoc, EA Sports President ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:38:53 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.11 April10 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,438.9212,581.98(- 143.06) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,320.36 2,351.70(-31.34) TokioNikkei13,323.7312,945.30(+ 378.43...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:45:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.9 April8 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,501.2112,576.44(-75.23) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,322.50 2,348.76(-26.26) TokyoNikkei13,111.8913,250.43(- 138.54) Sy...

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The Rock


I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976


We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Christopher Darlington Morley


There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Ronald Reagan


Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Teena Booth


If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:23:39 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index 5,895.50(- 69.60)(- 1.17 %) BAT Industries 1,909.00(-4.00)(- 0.21 %) BP Amoco     547.00(-3.00)(- 0.55 %) Diageo   1,049...

Quotes From House Hearings on Iraq (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:23:00 GMT
Some quotes from lawmakers during Wednesday's House hearings on Iraq, which featured testimony from Gen.

Quotes from NASCAR drivers about Aaron Fike's admission (Orlando Sentinel)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:17:03 GMT

Fine silver quotations Friday: C$18.773 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:43:29 GMT
The Canadian Press April 11, 2008 - 12:32 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.773 oz., $603.55 kg.; Thursday $18.974 oz., $610.01 kg.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:45:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.9 April8 April difference New York Dow Jones 12,501.2112,576.44(-75.23) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,322.50 2,348.76(-26.26) TokyoNikkei13,111.8913,250.43(- 138.54) Sy...

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