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Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle"


Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Sidney Madwed


Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

John Ray


Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

Helen Thomson


A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

John G. Vance


Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.

John Burroughs


Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Saadi


Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

David McCullough


There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

George Orwell, 1984


One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

W.C. Fields


Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again.

Confucius


By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES: RICARDO TORRES, KENDALL HOLT & LAMONT ... - Fighthype.com

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:40:00 GMT
Ten months after a wildly controversial ending to their first fight, Ricardo Torres will defend his World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior welterweight title against No. 1 contender Kendall Holt in a rematch on a special edition of ShoBox: The New ...

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Captain Lawrence Oates, last words


I am just going outside and may be some time.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992


People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Carl Rowen


There aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing answers.

Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs


Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.

Henry Louis Mencken


Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Walter Frederick Mondale


I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

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All Observer Stories - Guardian Unlimited

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:44:00 GMT
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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:27:00 GMT
John Vlahakis , 50, founded Earth Friendly Products in 1993. Today, the Winnetka company is a major maker of non-toxic household supplies. He comes clean: Huffington Post "isn't slick, but it has good reporting." Liked a recent Wall Street Journal ...

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Benjamin Franklin


Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Sarah Orne Jewett


'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Clifford Stoll


Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users

Robyn Davidson


The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy


I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

George Bernard Shaw


Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve


I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Blessing Irish


May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Mark Twain


Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:55:00 GMT
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Quentin Crisp


When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe

Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)


205. A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.

Odetta


No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks


Union gives strength.

Shane Leslie


The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

Katharine Butler Hathaway


There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Benjamin Spock


Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Niels Bohr


An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.


Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die

Lyndon B. Johnson


We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)


Many of us are more capable than some of us...
but none of us is as capable as all of us!!

Voltaire


Regimen is superior to medicine.

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London Stock Exchange quotations - Monsters and Critics

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:46:00 GMT
FT-100 Index 5,518.20 (- 147.90) BAT Industries 1,705.00 (- 68.00) BP Amoco 570.00 (- 3.75) Diageo 928.50 (- 1.50) HSBC Holdings 787.50 (- 27.25) Prudential 551.00 (- 36.00) R.Dutch Shell 'A' 1,985.00 (+ 1.00) R.Dutch Shell 'B' 1,935.00 ( 0.00) Tesco ...

Some Movie Quoters Seem to Have a Line for Everything - The Ledger

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:44:00 GMT
If Annie Mikels' mother asks her how she looks, the daughter is apt to answer, "B-E-A-utiful." If someone mentions being under the weather, Mikels might respond, "I'm feeling a little woozy here." The first quote comes from the movie "Bruce Almighty ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt


Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

William Phillips


Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Thomas Edison


I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Mariah Carey


I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.

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Airports by design - Daily Telegraph

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:30:00 GMT
My parents and I once went to London for a week's holiday. As part of this trip, we took the Tube to Heathrow, not to fly somewhere, but to see the airport as a tourist destination in its own right. Can you imagine anyone doing that now? Wouldn't ...

Some Movie Quoters Seem to Have a Line for Everything - The Ledger

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:44:00 GMT
If Annie Mikels' mother asks her how she looks, the daughter is apt to answer, "B-E-A-utiful." If someone mentions being under the weather, Mikels might respond, "I'm feeling a little woozy here." The first quote comes from the movie "Bruce Almighty ...

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Today's Famous Quotations:

Fawn M. Brodie


Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Mark Twain


Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Charles Robert Darwin


Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Theodore Hesburgh


The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420


First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Henny Youngman


If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning,....sleep late.

Mark Twain, A Curious Dream (1872)


Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Quintilian


Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Basil S. Walsh


If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there

C. E. Montague


To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

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International stock market quotations - Earthtimes

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:22:00 GMT
New York Dow Jones 11,404.4011,453.42(-49.02) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,311.00 2,321.37(-10.37) TokyoNikkei13,544.3613,822.32(- 277.96) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,349.40 5,421.50(-72.10) Hongkong Hang Seng 22,042.3522,455.67(- 413.32) London Fin.-Times 5 ...

London Stock Exchange quotations - Monsters and Critics

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:46:00 GMT
FT-100 Index 5,518.20 (- 147.90) BAT Industries 1,705.00 (- 68.00) BP Amoco 570.00 (- 3.75) Diageo 928.50 (- 1.50) HSBC Holdings 787.50 (- 27.25) Prudential 551.00 (- 36.00) R.Dutch Shell 'A' 1,985.00 (+ 1.00) R.Dutch Shell 'B' 1,935.00 ( 0.00) Tesco ...

Quotes of note - Boston Globe

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:11:00 GMT
"He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as 'black is beautiful, black is powerful.' . . . And they love it. Whites just eat it up." RALPH NADER, independent presidential candidate, on Barack Obama "Our dreams ...

Multi-crore scam detected in civic body - Hindustan Times

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:42:00 GMT
The Anti-Corruption Branch on Thursday raided offices and residences of senior Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Social Welfare Department officials, who allegedly forged documents to favour certain firms while purchasing items for government ...

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Famous Quotes:

Kahlil Gibran


Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Peter Ustinov


Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner


Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Sir Francis Bacon


Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone.

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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:26:00 GMT
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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:57:00 GMT
"It's the world upside down: In other countries they look for the marijuana in the cigarette. Here they look for the cigarette in the marijuana." — Jason den Enting, manager of a coffee shop in the Netherlands which is about to ban smoking in bars ...

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