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It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

Publilius Syrus


Debt is the slavery of the free.

Christian Cardell Corbet


When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes

Radiquet


A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

Martin Luther


Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Fortran manual for Xerox Computers


The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

Henry Ford


There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

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Google gets political with quotation tool - CNET News

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:49:00 GMT
Just in time for the home stretch of the U.S. presidential showdown, some crafty engineers at Google have created a tool to compare quotations from candidates Barack Obama and John ...

Wednesday Evening Hodge Podge - Bleacherreport.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:46:00 GMT
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Livestock report - Houston Chronicle

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:33:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Wednesday's closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. HOGS — 110 head. Compared to Tuesday: Barrows and Gilts: Steady. U.S. 1-3 220 ...

India FIMMDA-REUTERS-MIOCS for 3 years 4.61 pct - Reuters India

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:43:00 GMT
The above dollar rupee swap rates are a simple average of the bid and offer rates quoted by 11 market participants.The floating benchmark used here is the six month USD libor. For ...

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Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel


The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000


The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

George Meredith


Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Jorge Luis Borges


Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

John Gay


We only part to meet again.

Don Herold


There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

W. Somerset Maugham


Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Tommy Lasorda


The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

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He Read, She Read: A Lover Of Words Spends A Year In Dictionary ... - Daily News-Record

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:05:00 GMT
Shortly after Richard and I began writing "He Read, She Read" for the Daily News-Record, I chose to review a book by Simon Winchester called "The Meaning of Everything: The Story ...

No, but yeah, but Vicky Pollard is in the dictionary - Daily Mail

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:40:00 GMT
Queen of chavs: Vicky Pollard's catchphrase 'No but yeah but no' has made an appearance in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations She's hardly the first woman you'd think of ...

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Wednesday Evening Hodge Podge - Bleacherreport.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:46:00 GMT
* Think D-Mac is wishing the Cowboys had traded up to pick him, as was rumored before the draft? In the latest news out of Oakland, a Raiders exec went off on a local reporter on ...

Oracle Business Approvals coming to iPhone - Intomobile.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:18:00 GMT
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Persian Proverb


Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Albert Pike


What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

David Nestor


Don't hold on to anything too tightly sooner or later, you'll have to let go.

Alan King


If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Henry David Thoreau


We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Lyndon B. Johnson


There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

Michel de Montaigne


He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Carl Jung


As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.

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Priests for Life Shows Congress the Horror of Abortion - Catholic Online

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:27:00 GMT
The campaign explained via medical diagrams and abortionist quotations the true nature of the abortion procedure. WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. Frank Pavone led a team ...

Wednesday Evening Hodge Podge - Bleacherreport.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:46:00 GMT
* Think D-Mac is wishing the Cowboys had traded up to pick him, as was rumored before the draft? In the latest news out of Oakland, a Raiders exec went off on a local reporter on ...

Asbestos removal at Park Elementary may start today - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:49:00 GMT
Work may start today on asbestos abatement at Park Elementary School in Munhall, four days later than originally anticipated. The delay in the start of work is the result of ...

Arsene Wenger, He's Full of Wisdom You Know - Bleacherreport.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:43:00 GMT
I'm going to let all you good people on Bleacher Report into a little secret. It is a secret about me. I Love Arsene Wenger!! Ok, so you all know that already but it is true, it is ...

BRIEF-Micrus Endovascular enters into settlement pact with Boston ... - Forbes

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:51:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2007. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar ...

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Bill Veeck


I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Charles Wagner


Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

Dwight D Eisenhower


Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson


Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Unknown


If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.

Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)


The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Nathan Hale


I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.

Unknown


That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA


Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

Albert Einstein


"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

James Joseph Sylvester


The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

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Peres on Ahmedinajad: "A Disgrace to Islam and UN" - Arutz Sheva

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:53:00 GMT
(IsraelNN.com) President Shimon Peres spoke in the United Nations General Assembly a day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad addressed the same body and called Israel ...

Oracle Business Approvals coming to iPhone - Intomobile.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:18:00 GMT
iPhone is now definitely ready for enterprise and Oracle knows that. Hence the enterprise software maker has announced Oracle Business Approvals for Apple’s handset. The ...

Peres on Ahmedinajad: "A Disgrace to Islam and UN" - Arutz Sheva

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:53:00 GMT
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Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson


Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky


Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Hamlet II:ii


To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Dale Carnegie


If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

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Canadian dollar closed at 96.46 cents US, down 0.04 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:49:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed down 0.04 of a cent to 96.46 cents US on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 103.67 cents Canadian, up 0.04 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C ...

Cotton purchases low on expectations of drop in prices - Fibre2Fashion

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:02:00 GMT
The prices for effective cotton did not follow the downtrend at the New York futures exchange to the full extent. Towards the end of the week the quotations recovered again ...

Livestock report - Houston Chronicle

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:33:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Wednesday's closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. HOGS — 110 head. Compared to Tuesday: Barrows and Gilts: Steady. U.S. 1-3 220 ...

Ahmadinejad: Iran to send satellite carrier rocket - PR Inside

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:25:00 GMT
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran plans to send a satellite carrier rocket into space soon. Iranian state TV quotes Ahmadinejad as saying the Persian ...

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Dr. Robert Schuller


Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Jean-Paul Sartre


One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

Wernher Von Braun


There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further.

Victor Kiam


What's really important in life Sitting on a beach Looking a television eight hours a day I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.

J. M. Barrie


We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

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Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:15:00 GMT
NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Thursday as a profit warning from General Electric tempered hopes that Congress might be close to ...

Canadian dollar closed at 96.46 cents US, down 0.04 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:49:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed down 0.04 of a cent to 96.46 cents US on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 103.67 cents Canadian, up 0.04 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C ...

Vicky Pollard's catchphrase entered in humorous Oxford Dictionary - Daily Telegraph

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:13:00 GMT
Vicky Pollard, the inarticulate, shell-suited chav played by Matt Lucas in Little Britain, has made it into the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations.

Livestock report - Houston Chronicle

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:33:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Wednesday's closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. HOGS — 110 head. Compared to Tuesday: Barrows and Gilts: Steady. U.S. 1-3 220 ...

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Madame de Maintenon


The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Katharine Hepburn


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Fritz Perls


I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Gale Sayers


I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Langston Hughes


Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Richard Milhous Nixon


Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)

Sigmund Freud


From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Samuel Johnson, Rambler #18


There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Charles Caleb Colton


We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Socrates


I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)

Pam Brown


A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:16:00 GMT
CANBERRA Sept 25 (Reuters) - Australia's parliament approved a new tax on natural gas condensate on Thursday, which will reap $2.1 billion in revenue over four years from the North West Shelf project, despite protests from major resource companies ...

POWERFUL LADIES AS DIVERSION - New York Post

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:54:00 GMT
'THE GREATEST men I have known have never been able to put up with love. It's so distracting, and great men must never be disturbed at their work," wrote the famous London hostess Emerald Cunard. Hmm, thinking of Mark Anthony, who threw it all away ...

Democrats cry foul over Douglas TV spot - Bennington Banner

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:57:00 GMT
BURLINGTON — The chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party criticized Gov. Jim Douglas' re-election campaign Wednesday for a TV ad targeting Democratic candidate Gaye Symington over her incomplete personal financial disclosures. "Rather than ...

Read all '"Google Labs"' posts in Webware - CNET News

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:35:00 GMT
Just in time for the home stretch of the U.S. presidential showdown, some crafty engineers at Google have created a tool to compare quotations from candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Called " In Quotes ," the Google Labs project lets you search ...

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Rudyard Kipling


What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.

Richard Milhous Nixon


I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

Leo Tolstoy


Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Virgil


I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

Plato


We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Flannery O'Connor


Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Sidney Madwed


Thoughts are funny little things,
They can make paupers or make kings.

Steven Wright


If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it

Michel de Montaigne


Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Stephen Roberts


I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Buddha


All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

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Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange - Monsters and Critics

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:47:00 GMT
London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations. #> cash forward Copper 6,915.00 ( 7,085.00) 6,910.00 ( 7,070.00 ...

HBO's Entourage of Social Marketing Efforts - ClickZ

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:04:00 GMT
The fall TV season has brought with it a new season of "Entourage," HBO's hit show about a rising celebrity and his eclectic band of almost-brothers. Sure, the show is engrossing ...

Editorial: Prepare for an onslaught of ads - Roanoke Times

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:31:00 GMT
The good news about Virginia's unusual status as a battleground state is that the commonwealth will get plenty of notice from the candidates. The bad news is that Virginia is ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:48:00 GMT
PERTH, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Oil steadied below $106 a barrel on Thursday as falling U.S. inventories were countered by further evidence of slowing demand in the United States, the ...

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