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Karen Horney


Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

Terry Pratchet, The Last Continent


Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Walter Frederick Mondale


In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

John Henry Cardinal Newman


Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2


When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Voltaire


The way to become boring is to say everything.

Damien Hess


Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

Nick Diamos


Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

George Washington


'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Confucius, Analects


A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3


It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

P. G. Wodehouse


To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

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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 ...

Brands Hatch: Saturday Quotes (Pitpass)

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:32:45 GMT
Brands Hatch: Saturday Quotes

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Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Shirley Temple


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

G.K. Chesterton


The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

James Branch Cabell


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

Moroccan Proverb


He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Christopher Darlington Morley


There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Voltaire


I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:33:37 GMT
FT-100 Index      6,215.50(+ 128.20)(+ 2.11 %) BAT Industries  1,920.00(- 6.00)(- 0.31 %) BP Amoco          611.50(+ 6.50)(+ 1.07 %) Diageo        1,041.00(0.00)(0.00 %) HSBC Holdings   889.50(+10.00)(+ 1.14 %) Prudential      726.00(+29.00)(+ 4.16 ...

3 women, 3 voices, 3 lives - San Jose Mercury News

Sun, 04 May 2008 14:49:00 GMT
How you feel about Sheila Weller's "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation" may depend on how you respond to Weller's dedication ...

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Rodney Yee


As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Tom Stoppard


I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

Marcel Proust


Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Bryant Gumbel


I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

Vince Lombardi


Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.

A. E. Houseman


Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Ted Turner


If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Lillian Hellman


It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

David Bailey


It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

George S. Patton


Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating


No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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OECD: Norwegians second richest - Norway Post

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:34:00 GMT
New benchmark comparisons based on purchasing power parities (PPPs) show the level of gross domestic product per head has risen closer to the OECD average in a number of countries ...

Boris Johnson's London will be a Tory lab - Daily Telegraph

Sun, 04 May 2008 16:36:00 GMT
As we looked over the multi-coloured "Back Boris" ice sculpture across the dazzling evening cityscape - what Peter Ackroyd has so rightly called "infinite London" - the full ...

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Ambrose Bierce


Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Eddie Cantor


Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Mignon McLaughlin


I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Back to the Future


Marty McFly Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born.

Despair.com


The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

Marcus Valerius Martialis


Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

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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 ...

Making Risk Work for You - NZCity

Fri, 02 May 2008 09:57:00 GMT
But real world examples presented by the likes of Warren Buffett suggest that even if all information is available on all shares all the time, different people will use that ...

Richmond: GM teams race quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sun, 04 May 2008 08:27:26 GMT
ON FAIRNESS RACING ROOM BY KYLE BUSCH: "Whether it is fair or not, he is going to need some security. I haven't seen the replay, Tony, Jr. (Eury) said it looked like Kyle got loose underneath me. That happens. I wasn't good on the bottom so I moved up to the top to run as good as I could up there.

3 women, 3 voices, 3 lives - San Jose Mercury News

Sun, 04 May 2008 14:49:00 GMT
How you feel about Sheila Weller's "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation" may depend on how you respond to Weller's dedication ...

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Lois McMaster Bujold


Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

David Frye impersonating Nixon


I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

Stanley Kunitz


What makes the engine go Desire, desire, desire.

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Webwereld | Australian department to switch from NetWare to Linux - Webwereld.nl

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:19:00 GMT
Webwereld: altijd het laatste ict-nieuws ... Donderdag 24 mei 2007, 09:30 - As part of a core infrastructure refresh project, The New South Wales Department of State and ...

Service Control Manager - Heineken Global Workplace @ Heineken Group ... - Tweakers

Sat, 03 May 2008 13:38:00 GMT
Service Control Manager - Heineken Global Workplace . Heineken International Central IT delivers common IT infrastructure and services to all operating companies of Heineken ...

Emerce - Archief: De beste quotes uit 25x Emerce - Emerce

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:18:00 GMT
1. "Het blijkt dat de geldbehoefte van starters veel lager ligt dan ze zelf denken." Informal investor Fred Rodenburg. Emerce 1, zomer 1998 2.

Elsevier.nl - Economie - Quotes van topmoeders en topvaders - Elsevier

Sat, 03 May 2008 10:11:00 GMT
Hoe doen vrouwen in topfuncties het als moeder en baas, volgens hun kinderen? Vraag het hen en je krijgt lang niet altijd diplomatieke antwoorden.

Local elections: key quotes (BBC News)

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:00:10 GMT
Here are some key quotes of reaction to results from the May Day elections in England and Wales

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