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Monday, May 19, 2008

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Earl Nightingale


We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

St. Jerome


For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Franklin P. Jones


Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Henry David Thoreau


We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

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Convention quotes - Reno Gazette

Sun, 18 May 2008 15:44:00 GMT
Beyond electing national delegate and deciding a party platform, the state convention also is an opportunity to rally the troops around the Democrats running for office this year ...

NEWS: BlitzMail updates planned for 2009 (The Dartmouth)

Mon, 19 May 2008 10:18:07 GMT
After 20 years with only minor changes, BlitzMail will receive a complete facelift. The upgrade, expected to be completed by fall 2009, could include a built-in calendar, threading capabilities, increased search options and a new design for the interface.

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Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994


But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead�a dead parent, for example�can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Lillian Hellman


If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936


So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Scottish Proverb


Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

Charles Horton Cooley


When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Publilius Syrus


To do two things at once is to do neither.

Jean Anouilh


Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Virgil, Aeneid


I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville


In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.

Chinese Proverb


If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

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Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke takes new approach with '24 City.' - Los Angeles Times

Mon, 19 May 2008 04:30:00 GMT
CANNES, France -- By necessity, Jia Zhang-ke is a filmmaker who responds to current events with the instincts of a newshound. Not only is the 38-year-old director the most ...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

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: ...

Indy and the Martian Inca mummies -- vs. the French! - Salon

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:48:00 GMT
Harrison Ford (left) is back as Indiana Jones, co-starring with Shia LaBeouf in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." CANNES, France -- Jim Jarmusch received an ...

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Michel de Montaigne


Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Henry David Thoreau


If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Joe Orton


I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Arabic Proverb


God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.

Spider-Man


Green Goblin We are who we choose to be... now, CHOOSE.

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Quotes Of The Week - Globe and Mail

Sun, 18 May 2008 12:37:00 GMT
» Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to Liberal critic John McCallum: "You should think twice before you go after much respected Canadians in a petty and gutter way that you do ...

Gfk/NOP May consumer confidence (0001 BST) - Forbes

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar ...

Among Best Countries to Do Business in LatAm Brazil Is Number 9 - Brazzil Magazine

Mon, 19 May 2008 06:03:00 GMT
Brazil ranks ninth in a 19-nation list of the best countries to do business in Latin America, according to the second annual Latin Business Index from Latin Business Chronicle. The ...

92nd INDIANAPOLIS 500 THIRD DAY QUALIFYING QUOTES (The Auto Channel)

Sun, 18 May 2008 16:57:37 GMT
GRAHAM RAHAL (#06 Hole in the Wall Camps Dallara/Honda/Firestone): (About his qualifying run): “It is nice to get in. Obviously, I feel bad about my comments last week. This team is certainly known for its preparation, and we showed it today. We’ve had a good car so far.

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C. C. Colton


It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Oscar Wilde


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Confucius


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Franz Kafka


Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

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Regional Briefs Easley marks money for black monument (Winston-Salem Journal)

Mon, 19 May 2008 04:56:56 GMT
RALEIGH -- Gov. Mike Eas­ley has included $1 million in his proposed budget for the N.C. Freedom Monument, a project designed to honor the black experience in North Carolina.

A V Rajwade: The good old LIBOR - Business Standard

Sun, 18 May 2008 19:04:00 GMT
As a result of the crisis in the global credit market, LIBOR is coming under increasing scrutiny Ever since the birth of the off-shore dollar market, back in the 1960s (when it was ...

Views Articles (FSView)

Mon, 19 May 2008 04:08:46 GMT
"We walked four miles to get to work every morning." "I didn't own my first car until well into my 30s." "The kids today have it so easy." The image that comes to mind from these quotes is an old man or woman, sitting in their designated chair on the front porch, reprimanding today's society.

Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Mon, 19 May 2008 05:23:49 GMT
``Yeah, yeah, we've confirmed that already. Well, Jack's just confirmed it actually.'' — Angelina Jolie, who confirmed she's expecting twins after ``Kung Fu Panda'' co-star Jack Black let the news slip. They were doing a side-by-side ``Today'' show interview.

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Joseph Addison


A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Kahlil Gibran


Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Albert Camus


In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Will Rogers


I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Homer, The Odyssey


A small rock holds back a great wave.

Nancy Mitford


To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Lillian Hellman


I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Henry David Thoreau


Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Virgil, Aeneid


Each of us bears his own Hell.

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Grads at RPI get - Times Union

Sun, 18 May 2008 10:50:00 GMT
TROY -- David Gergen offered the following joke Saturday less than a minute after he walked to the podium to deliver the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute commencement address: "I ...

Liberty Town Council opens quotes for paving (Palladium-Item)

Sun, 18 May 2008 11:28:30 GMT
LIBERTY, Ind. -- The Liberty Town Council will open quotes for street paving when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday in the courthouse meeting room.

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:30:22 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,304 30(+ 52.50)(+ 0.84 %) BAT Industries  1,980.00(+ 14.00)(+ 0.71 %) BP Amoco        635.00(+9.50)(+ 1.52 %) Diageo  ...