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Anne McCaffrey


Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Anonymous


Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.

Alice James


One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Greg Proops


I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Anderson H. Scruggs


Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

Jacob Bigelow


Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.

Jean-Paul Marat


God has always been hard on the poor.

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Sun, 04 May 2008 08:22:00 GMT
Neither the Subscriber nor Thomson Financial News warrants the completeness or accuracy of the Service or the suitability of the Service as a trading aid and neither accepts any ...

Moms Say the Darndest Things (Provo Daily Herald)

Sat, 03 May 2008 07:13:38 GMT
Does your mom have a favorite saying that you've heard over and over again? Ever catch yourself saying something that sounds just like your mother? With Mother's Day just around the corner, we'd like to record some of those familiar quotations as a way to pay tribute to Mom on her special day. We'd love for you to share that favorite saying, as well as a few words about what it means to you, for ...

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Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (regarding popcorn)


If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

Victor Cousin


True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is.

William Carleton


"Careful with fire" is good advice we know.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.

Mencius


Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon


Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Marquis de Sade


Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Abdul Baha, Bahai Writings


If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Thomas Secker


If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

Mark Twain


In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

H. L. Mencken


The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Thomas Barron


The Creator gave man two ears and one mouth;there is a reason why He did so.

Josh Billings


Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

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Producer Joel Silver is brothers' keeper - Edmonton Sun

Sun, 04 May 2008 07:25:00 GMT
LOS ANGELES -- The last time Andy and Larry Wachowski spoke to the media, the Clintons were in the White House, Y2K was imminent, salivating Star Wars fans were awaiting The ...

Canadian dollar closed unchanged at 98.11 cents US - Canada East

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:02:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed unchanged at 98.11 cents US on Friday. The U.S. dollar stood also unchanged at 101.93 cents Cdn. Pound sterling closed C$2.0116, down 0.08 of a ...

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.097 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 01 May 2008 17:58:29 GMT
The Canadian Press May 1, 2008 - 1:43 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.097 oz., $549.67 kg.; Wednesday $17.424 oz., $560.18 kg.

Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker - Times Online

Sat, 03 May 2008 20:05:00 GMT
Few ideas are more deeply embedded in our culture than that of the second world war as a “good war”, which pitted virtue against evil. But what if the forces of virtue were so ...

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Francis Bacon


Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

President George Bush, quoted in Asiaweek magazine


Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.

Norman Juster


You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Bill Bowerman


If you have a body, you are an athlete.

American Proverb


Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

Aesop


Outside show is a poor substitution for inner worth.

Paul Tsongas


The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980's and 1990's we must focus on the health of the goose.

T.H. Buxley


The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.544 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:43:17 GMT
The Canadian Press May 2, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.544 oz., $564.04 kg.; Thursday $17.097 oz., $549.67 kg.

F1: Turkey preview quotes: McLaren (autosport.com)

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:51:02 GMT
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it's some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it EASY

William Dukane


It takes a village to raise an idiot.

Valerie Polakow


Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure.

George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9


Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Serge Kahili King


We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

Paul Aubuchon


She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.

Gene Roddenberry


A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Samuel Johnson


Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

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Quotes from the members of the 2008 FBS College Football Hall of Fame (WIBW Topeka)

Fri, 02 May 2008 20:36:14 GMT
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame captured the following quotes from the members of the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision

Natural beauty - Centre Daily

Sat, 03 May 2008 05:24:00 GMT
BIGLER, Clearfield County — Drive down an unassuming street past a brick plant and you’ll get your first glimpse of the flower show that is to come. CDT/Catrina Rawson Ray ...

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Fri, 02 May 2008 16:56:17 GMT
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Danish proverb


If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Voltaire


If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Doctor Who


The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

Seneca


Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Harriet Beecher Stowe


The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harry S Truman


I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:33:03 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

As your desire is, so is your will, - Economic Times

Fri, 02 May 2008 17:07:00 GMT
A giant board carrying this verse welcomes visitors to the tenth floor office in Piramal Towers, the Piramal Group’s HQ in Mumbai. Here, putting up inspirational quotations in ...

Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:35:00 GMT
"I know it's tough times, and I know you're having to pay more at the fuel pump than you want. But this economy is going to come on. I'm confident it will.'' -- President Bush ...

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