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Thursday, May 01, 2008

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John Milton


The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

Charles R. Swindoll


The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Ronald Reagan


I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Allard Lowenstein, O Magazine, September 2002


The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

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Carrie Underwood's Weight Drama - OK! Weekly

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Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1924)


Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.

This Is Spinal Tap


Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Alan B. Watts


If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Saint Clair Adams Sullivan


Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they can grow up-and we have only a short moment with each. When you see a grandfather take a baby in his arms, you see that the moment hasn't always been long enough.

Herodotus


The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

Henry J. Tillman


The world is my lobster.

Samuel Smiles


The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:34:00 GMT
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India FIMMDA-REUTERS-MIOCS for 3 years 4.85 pct - Reuters India

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Prisoners' pay - Politics.co.uk

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:53:00 GMT
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Chomsky speaks softly on Israel, Palestine(2) - U-Wire.com

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Karl Kraus


What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Love is not something that you can put chains on and throw into a lake. That's called Houdini. Love is liking someone a lot.

W. Somerset Maugham


Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Francois Delsarte


The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Logan Pearsall Smith


How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true

Denise Caruso


It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.

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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:43:00 GMT
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:24:00 GMT
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Medill's dean says he made a mistake - Chicago Tribune

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:04:00 GMT
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:02:00 GMT
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Ariel Sharon


In Lebanon there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids


What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

Brian Judge


Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had.

Jeb Stuart Magruder


I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass.

Chinese Proverb


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

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Henry David Thoreau


I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Jimmy Swaggart


Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings


Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.

Swedenborg


Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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Reporting: London - American Reporter

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:01:00 GMT
LONDON, Oct. 30 -- The rugged, wild Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, once the hideout for the world's most-wanted terrorist, will be converted into a luxury tourist attraction with ...

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.424 ounce - Canada East

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:09:00 GMT
TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.; Tuesday $17.493 oz., $562.40 kg. Logged in visitors may comment on ...

Chomsky speaks softly on Israel, Palestine(2) - U-Wire.com

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:56:00 GMT
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