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Homer, The Odyssey


A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Woody Allen


It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Oscar Wilde


I can resist anything but temptation.

Josh Billings


Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Aprocrypha


Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

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Tim Russert, 1950-2008: Gone Much Too Soon - US News and World Report

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:34:00 GMT
Horrible news : Tim Russert has died suddenly of a heart attack at NBC's Washington bureau. Others are paying proper tribute to him as the host since 1991 of Meet the Press , on which he conducted the toughest interviews of politicians and ...

TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Oil and utilities highlights to 09:15 BST - Forbes

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:28:00 GMT
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Babcock: Avoiding Cup hangover will be a challenge - Detroit Free Press

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:33:00 GMT
Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock was interviewed on WDFN-AM (1130) and said his team might be even more talented next year. But finding the will to win it all in consecutive seasons will be tough. Here's the interview: QUESTION: Congratulations. I ...

Don't hire cowboys; you'll only shoot yourself in the foot - The Independent

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:46:00 GMT
Dealing with disasters: if the work that your builder, plumber or electrician does is not up to scratch, give them a chance to put it right before taking more drastic measures Letting strangers into your house is an experiment in trust at the best of ...

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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy


Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Mahatma Gandhi


When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it � always.

Truman Capote


I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Samuel Butler


An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Albert Einstein


The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

William Hazlitt


Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

Epictetus


Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


To fill the hour-that is happiness.

Ludwig van Beethoven


I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

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An Irish gusto for politics leavened with civility - Los Angeles Times

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:40:00 GMT
Journalism is, at best, a fairly ephemeral trade. Tim Russert is one of those rare journalists who actually leaves a legacy because he was the right man at the right time with the right technique. In 1991, when Russert took over "Meet the Press," the ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:31:00 GMT
"It's flooding of biblical proportions." — Cedar Rapids resident Michelle Myers on the flooding of the Cedar River, which was expected to crest at nearly 32 feet, about 12 feet higher than the 1929 record. "I've seen that videotape way too many ...

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Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo


There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

G. C. Lichtenberg


He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955


Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Rogers Turrentine


There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.

Joseph Addison


When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Morley Saefer


Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Johnson


It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johann von Goethe


One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

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UK drowning in spam tidal wave - CIO.de

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:25:00 GMT
According to the Cisco subsidiary's Internet Security Trends report for 2007, this deluge means that each business inbox now receives between 100 and 1,000 spam emails per day ...

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 ...

New tool aims to ease online mortgage shopping - CIO.de

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT
The online broker said the new will infuse transparency into what has traditionally been a confusing process for borrowers. The new tool includes a public lender feedback system ...

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