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Kahlil Gibran


I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

G. Macdonald


Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Benjamin Disraeli


The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Mark Twain


Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher


I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Henry David Thoreau


Be not simply good - be good for something.

Elmer Wheeler


The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.

Homer, The Odyssey


We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)


Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday.

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Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:21 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

Mets' clubhouse is a mess - Raleigh News & Observer

Sun, 18 May 2008 05:57:00 GMT
Getty Images Photo by Al Bello Such is the state of the Mets that they make the last-place Yankees, with a blustering owner and a general manager probably dangling again on the big ...

Easier grain import norms likely - Business Standard

Sat, 17 May 2008 18:37:00 GMT
The oversight committee on the strategic grain reserve being developed by India will not haul up state trading PSUs like MMTC, STC or PEC for price fluctuations after they finalise ...

Reporting: London - American Reporter

Sat, 17 May 2008 23:37:00 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 ...

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Muhammad Ali


Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Warren Buffett


If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

Miguel de Cervantes


They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.

Andrew Lang


You can cover a great deal of country in books.

B. F. Skinner


Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.

Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2


2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius


The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

German proverb


The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

Thomas Jefferson


I live for books.

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All-Star: GM teams race quotes, notes (Motorsport.com)

Sun, 18 May 2008 05:44:14 GMT
Concord, NC - Team Chevy Impala SS drivers and crew chiefs maximized tonight's NASCAR Sprint All-Star race at Lowe's Motor Speedway to gain valuable information for next week's Coca Cola 600.

All-Star: Ford teams race quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sun, 18 May 2008 05:44:24 GMT
"I thought we were the car to beat. I thought we were gonna be great there (in the second half). I was already thinking about what I was gonna do with all the money, having a good time, but something with that last set of tires on that last run, it was just off. I couldn't go any faster.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.588 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:54:10 GMT
The Canadian Press May 15, 2008 - 1:44 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.588 oz., $565.45 kg.; Wednesday $17.294 oz., $556 kg.

Capital Inflows - Kommersant

Sat, 17 May 2008 08:14:00 GMT
Last week the inflows of capital in the funds investing in Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) broke the record set February , 2006. Funds raised as much as ...

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Wed, 14 May 2008 16:30:41 GMT
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Sir Walter Scott


Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Dag Hammarskjold


Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Jeff Pesis


Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

I Ching


Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)


Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

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All-Star: Ford teams qualifying quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sat, 17 May 2008 03:28:02 GMT
"It went OK. I thought I got on pit road as good as I could get on it, really. I may have left a little bit there and my laps on the track probably weren't the greatest, and I don't think our pit stop was very good, so I don't think that will end up very sporty."

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Sir Walter Scott


Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Dag Hammarskjold


Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Jeff Pesis


Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

I Ching


Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)


Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

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Wed, 14 May 2008 16:30:41 GMT
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All-Star: Toyota teams qualifying quotes (Motorsport.com)

Sat, 17 May 2008 03:27:42 GMT
Were you pleased with your qualifying run? "Our run really didn't mean anything because we had to change a motor so we have to go to the back anyway. We basically did it just to go through the motions. I got 12 laps of practice so not real sure what to expect for tomorrow now.

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Andrew H. Malcolm


The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.

Unknown


Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952


Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)


The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

John Quincy Adams


Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

William Shakespeare


Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

Ludwig van Beethoven


I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Margaret Lee Runbeck


Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Sophocles


Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.


In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Michel de Montaigne


In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

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Fri, 16 May 2008 18:45:00 GMT
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., May 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Onstream Media Corporation (Nasdaq: ONSM), an online service provider of live and on-demand internet video ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 17 May 2008 08:14:00 GMT
"This is the century when white people will become a minority in this country. What that means is right now, we need to have a clear picture of where we're headed and work together ...

TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Macroeconomics highlights to 10:10 BST - Forbes

Sat, 17 May 2008 09:18:00 GMT
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