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Saturday, April 26, 2008

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J.D., "Heathers"


Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie.

Robin Green


I have seen men fly bombers with their faces half- blown away. You're going to allow a few algebra formulas to ground you

Richard Darman


I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Lois McMaster Bujold


I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

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Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:48:00 GMT
NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - The Dow and S&P rose on Friday, after signs that American Express Co was holding its own amid the economic slowdown, but Microsoft Corp's weak profit ...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:48:03 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

Some quotes on alleged North Korean nuclear cooperation with Syria (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:42:19 GMT
Some quotes on the Syrian nuclear reactor allegedly built with North Korean help and the briefing to lawmakers on Thursday about the reactor. "We are convinced, based on a variety of information, that North Korea assisted Syria's covert nuclear activities.

As we like it - Frederick News-Post

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:47:00 GMT
One of the things that's been going on during April in our town is a celebration of William Shakespeare. It's his birthday month, year number 444 for the Bard of Avon, a stunning ...

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Danish proverb


Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince


There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.

Archibald MacLeish


The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

W. Somerset Maugham


To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Hugh Blair


True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

Seneca


If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Margaret Fuller


It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Theodore Sturgeon


Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Clive Staples Lewis


If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1


Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets his wings. But what they don't tell you is, every time you hear a mousetrap snap, an angel gets set on fire.

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As we like it - Frederick News-Post

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:47:00 GMT
One of the things that's been going on during April in our town is a celebration of William Shakespeare. It's his birthday month, year number 444 for the Bard of Avon, a stunning ...

Kudrin Vowed to Pump Crude via Exchange - Kommersant

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:44:00 GMT
At the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting held this weekend in China, Russia’s Finance Minister vowed to increase crude export and fix prices on New York ...

F1: Spain Friday quotes: Honda (autosport.com)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:26 GMT
Spain Friday quotes: Honda

Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:33:00 GMT
"I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance.'' -- Actor Wesley Snipes at his sentencing for ...

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Francis Bacon


Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.

G. E. Lessing


One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Joseph Wood Krutch


A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Maureen Hawkins


Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.

Sophocles, Ajax


Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890


The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

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BaySoft introduces online estate agent comparison service - Computer Business Review

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:57:00 GMT
BaySoft believes that the web-based application is likely to facilitate the creation of more vendor leads for estate agents and help property owners to sell their property without ...

Islamist video responds to Dutch film - Reuters UK

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:19:00 GMT
DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked website has posted a 10-minute film showing civilians killed or maimed in U.S. and Israeli air strikes as an answer to an anti-Koran film ...

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Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons


I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard


Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

William Orville Douglas


Common sense often makes good law.

Lillian Hellman


I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Henry Kissinger


Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

John Kenneth Galbraith


Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

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Some quotes on alleged North Korean nuclear aid to Syria (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:48:05 GMT
Some quotes on the Syrian nuclear reactor allegedly built with North Korean help and the briefing to lawmakers on Thursday about the reactor.

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.607 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:15:29 GMT
The Canadian Press April 22, 2008 - 12:55 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $18.607 oz., $598.22 kg.; Monday $18.111 oz., $582.27 kg.

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Vernon Law


Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

1 John 49 NIV Bible


This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977


There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Unknown


Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

Leo Tolstoy


All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Clifton Fadiman


Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

W. H. Auden


One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

William Jennings Bryan


Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Charles Buxton


Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Native American


It all meant nothing but 'Move a little farther. You are to near me.'

B. A. Billingsly


A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice


For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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Car Bomb Kills 3 in Pakistan - Voice of America

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:52:00 GMT
A car bomb outside a police station in Pakistan has killed at least three people in the northwestern city of Mardan. Police say they believe Friday's explosion came from a car ...

US: If Obama thought the Rev Wright's comments were behind him, he was ... - MSN UK News

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:18:00 GMT
Barack Obama's efforts to shift attention away from the fiery remarks of his former pastor have been set back with the broadcast of an interview in which the preacher says his ...