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Henry Elliot


If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.

Charles Horton Cooley


An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Emma Goldman, Anarchism (1910)


Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Confucius


The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

Henry Louis Mencken


A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Bertrand Russell


If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence


Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

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Bus crash kills 40 children in western India (AlertNet)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:39:19 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates with quotes, death toll) AHMEDABAD, India, April 16 (Reuters)- At least 44 school children were killed on Wednesday when their bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a canal in western ...

Shanghai: Sunday Quotes (Pitpass)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:19:21 GMT
Shanghai: Sunday Quotes

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:53:14 GMT
Frankfurt- Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.937 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:58:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 15, 2008 - 12:42 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $18.937 oz., $608.82 kg.; Monday $18.881 oz., $607.02 kg.

Bus crash kills 40 children in western India (AlertNet)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:39:19 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates with quotes, death toll) AHMEDABAD, India, April 16 (Reuters)- At least 44 school children were killed on Wednesday when their bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a canal in western ...

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Hermann Hesse


There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Henny Youngman


I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Thomas Davidson


Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

Ignacio Estrada


If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

William Wordsworth


How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Hasidic Saying


To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

H. L. Mencken


An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Roy L. Smith


The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:28:59 GMT
THE FOLLOWING IS THE BEST QUOTATIONS AVAILABLE FROM COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KUALA LUMPUR AT 11.30 A.M, TODAY, ISSUED BY BANK NEGARA.

BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES: APRIL 16 (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:21:27 GMT
BANK NEGARA EXCHANGE RATES: THE FOLLOWING IS THE BEST QUOTATIONS AVAILABLE FROM COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KUALA LUMPUR AT 11.30 A.M, TODAY, ISSUED BY BANK NEGARA.

Bus crash kills 40 children in western India (AlertNet)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:39:19 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates with quotes, death toll) AHMEDABAD, India, April 16 (Reuters)- At least 44 school children were killed on Wednesday when their bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a canal in western ...

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Dan Quayle, 9/5/90


For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Jack Benny


Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Stephen Leacock


Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Robert Burton


A good conscience is a continual feast.

Benjamin Franklin


He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Ralph Kiner


The Mets have gotten their leadoff batter on only once this inning.

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The Dhammapada


For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)


Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Elie Wiesel


There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Hortense Calisher


This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

John Ernst Steinbeck


One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

D. H. Lawrence


How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Chinese Proverb


A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

Sydney Harris


When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what'

Alexander Hamilton


Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:39:42 GMT
"They said, 'your children are ours'. We could not even ask a question.'' -- Marie, a 32-year-old member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints whose three boys were taken from the polygamist retreat into state custody.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:53:14 GMT
Frankfurt- Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

Fine silver quotations Monday: $18.881 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:43:29 GMT
The Canadian Press April 14, 2008 - 12:32 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $18.881 oz., $607.02 kg.; Friday $18.773 oz., $603.55 kg.

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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.

Ayn Rand


If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary.

Phaedrus


There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Albert Einstein


Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

Robert F. Bennett


Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Jean Baptiste Lacoraire


The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen

Claude M Bristol


Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.

William John Bennett


Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Robert Collier


Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:53:24 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

U.S. Supreme Court lets death sentence stand in 1978 slaying (The Fresno Bee)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:26:13 GMT
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a death row inmate whose sentence had been overturned by a lower court that found a juror's use of biblical quotations during the penalty phase was improper.

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