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William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

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!

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

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.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Victor Hugo


Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Charles Caleb Colton


Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.

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F1: Spain Sunday quotes: Bridgestone (autosport.com)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:56:18 GMT
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Artists’ duty is to inform the public: Mirkarimi - Tehran Times

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:35:00 GMT
TEHRAN -- Managing Director of Iran’s House of Cinema Reza Mirkarimi is convinced that the artists should develop their own ways for responding to Western attempts to challenge the status of Persian civilization and culture. Speaking at a ...

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Theodore Roosevelt


It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Flannery O'Connor


There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Samuel Butler


A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Ludwig van Beethoven


Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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Unique Family Address Labels - PR Inside

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:55:00 GMT
2008-04-27 10:02:01 - With the many designs circulating in the industry of address labels today, you can be sure to come up with something that is uniquely your own. The choices ...

NSW drivers punished with high car insurance premiums - News.com.au

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:14:00 GMT
MOTORISTS in NSW are forced to pay $446 more than Victorians and $629 more than Queenslanders for their car insurance, even though car thefts, claim rates and accident records are ...

F1: Spain Sunday quotes: Bridgestone (autosport.com)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:56:18 GMT
Spain Sunday quotes: Bridgestone

PhilSCA prexy, 5 opisyal suspendido - The Journal Group Online

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:40:00 GMT
ISINAILALIM ni Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas Gutierrez sa anim na buwang preventive suspension ang presidente ng Philippine State College of Aeronautics (PhilSCA) at limang iba pa dahil ...

F1: Spain Sunday quotes: Williams (autosport.com)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:26:26 GMT
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill


Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Niccolo Machiavelli


There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Unknown


If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

George Bernard Shaw


Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

John Locke


Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Virgil


Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also Fortune favors the bold.

Mark Twain


When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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Pas de formule miracle pour le FMI - La Tribune

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:11:00 GMT
Alors que la gouvernance économique mondiale est au coeur de toutes les préoccupations, la décision de modifier les règles de représentation dans l'organisation phare de la ...

Erika : 192 millions d'euros de dommages et intérêts - Le Nouvel Observateur

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:53:00 GMT
Total SA, l'armateur, le gestionnaire et la société de classification devront payer des amendes allant de 75.000 à 375.000 euros. Ils devront en outre verser solidairement 192 ...

Le gouverneur de la Banque d’Algérie réitère l’appel pour que ... - Liberté-Algérie

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:35:00 GMT
afin de corriger l’importante sous-représentation de certaines régions, particulièrement l’Afrique et le Moyen-Orient, au sein des services et de la Direction du FMI. “Les ...

Pas de formule miracle pour le FMI - La Tribune

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:11:00 GMT
Alors que la gouvernance économique mondiale est au coeur de toutes les préoccupations, la décision de modifier les règles de représentation dans l'organisation phare de la ...

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Nora Joyce, to her husband James


Why dont you write books people can read

Keri Hulme


It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

Charles J. C. Lyall


There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

H. Jackson Jr. Brown


Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:48:34 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.April 24 April 23Difference New York Dow Jones 12,827.0512,763.22(+63.83) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,422.61 2,405.21(+17.40) TokyoNikkei13,540.8713,579.16(-38.29) Sy...

Der Mann für ungewöhnliche Rollen - Rheinpfalz

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:07:00 GMT
Johnny Depp im Pech: Auch die grandiose Rolle des mordenden Barbiers in Tim Burtons düsterem Musical-Thriller "Sweeney Todd" (momentan im Kino) brachte dem talentierten ...

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.763 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:43:27 GMT
The Canadian Press April 24, 2008 - 2:35 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.763 oz., $571.08 kg.; Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.

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Anna Lappe


Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Michelangelo Buonarroti


If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Kulawiec


Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

James Gilmore Backus


Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

US Declaration of Independence


We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Microsoft fixes WSUS malfunction in time for Patch Tuesday - CIO.de

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:14:00 GMT
For the second time in less than three weeks, Microsoft Corp. has had to apologize for blunders made by the application that enterprise administrators rely on to deploy the ...

mein Yahoo! - Wirtschaftswoche

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:39:00 GMT
“The Americans,” wrote Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, “in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise.” Writing ...

Der Bonus ist für die UBS ein Malus - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:15:00 GMT
Trotz einem Verlust von 4,4 Milliarden Franken im letzten Jahr zahlt die UBS ihren Bankern Boni im Gesamtwert von geschätzt über 10 Milliarden Franken. Diese Lohnpolitik stösst ...

UK drowning in spam tidal wave - CIO.de

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:25:00 GMT
According to the Cisco subsidiary's Internet Security Trends report for 2007, this deluge means that each business inbox now receives between 100 and 1,000 spam emails per day ...

Der Mann für ungewöhnliche Rollen - Rheinpfalz

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:07:00 GMT
Johnny Depp im Pech: Auch die grandiose Rolle des mordenden Barbiers in Tim Burtons düsterem Musical-Thriller "Sweeney Todd" (momentan im Kino) brachte dem talentierten ...