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William Hazlitt


The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.

Tony Kanal


I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.

Harriet Woods


You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

John Sheffield


'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

Michel de Montaigne


Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

J. Bronowski


Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignityWho has not been sweptBy the wish to hurtAnd who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure

Dorothy Thompson


Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live...

Louisa May Alcott


Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.

Rita Rudner


Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech


I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

Kahlil Gibran


To be closer to God, be closer to people.

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Secret deal's key file is found (Detroit Free Press)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:23:27 GMT
The long-sought legal document that triggered an $8.4-million deal to hide Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's damaging text messages has been recovered from a lawyer's computer.

Rules, tips, tournaments, quotations (Carteret County News-Times)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:13:17 GMT
Joe Btfsplk’s tee shot comes to rest left of the fairway on the side of a steep hill. When he arrives at his ball he sees that it is lying right in the middle of a fire ant mound. Joe gets free relief from the fire ants and proceeds to take his drop on the side of the hill.

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Liberace


Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Basho


Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius


Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843


Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Henry Miller


If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991


My home is not a place, it is people.

Constanze


Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Geoffrey Parsons


To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

Barbara Adams


If it helps to make people think a little bit more what those ideals are, then I'll keep wearing this uniform.

Marcel Archard


The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Langston Coleman


Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Charles Baudelaire


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

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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:04:00 GMT
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Mao Zedong


Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party.

David Van Boom


Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.

Plato, The Republic


The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Ann Landers


The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Thomas Carlyle


Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Clement Stone


You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.

John Lydon


There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it.

Caligula


Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.

Johann von Goethe


All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Annson Dorrance


The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking.

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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:19:00 GMT
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Pastor wants Gary to give closed church to his congregation - Chicago Tribune

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:30:00 GMT
GARY, Ind. - A pastor wants Gary to give what's left of a deteriorating church to his congregation, saying it is key to saving the city. A 20-page proposal, presented to Mayor Rudy Clay and City Council, quotes heavily from the Bible and asks Clay to ...

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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:39:00 GMT
MOSCOW – A Russian news agency says a Siberian court has convicted a college student to 16 months in prison for joking about killing President-elect Dmitry Medvedev. Prosecutors say Anton Epikhin threatened to murder Medvedev and attack polling ...

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Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.


Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

Author Unknown


Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

Ogden Nash


I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

Kahlil Gibran


As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Pierre Trudeau


Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Pliny the Younger, Letters


That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

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Book Review: Don Jordan's and Michael Walsh's 'White Cargo' (International Herald Tribune)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:05:36 GMT
Were America's first slaves white? This book says they were.

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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:06:37 GMT
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Colley Cibber


We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Publilius Syrus


Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi


A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius


Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

William Hazlitt


To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Larry McMurtry


No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Henry David Thoreau


If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

George Gordon Byron


For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'dAnd the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still

Voltaire


God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:51:00 GMT
When I went to work for the Spectator as political editor seven years ago, the then editor Boris Johnson would ring me up once a week. The first thing I noticed about these calls ...

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

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:49:00 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 ...

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