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Monday, September 29, 2008

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Harry Emerson Fosdick


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit


What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

Harry S Truman


If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

Henri Frdric Amiel


Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:34:00 GMT
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:34:00 GMT
"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see ...

Quotes from Minnesota delegation on bailout vote - Grand Forks Herald

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:43:00 GMT
Minnesota split its eight votes in the U.S. House on Monday when a $700 billion financial industry bailout bill fell to defeat. The votes didn't fall along party lines, however ...

Canadian dollar closed at 95.79 cents US, down 1.03 cents - Canada East

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:02:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed down 1.03 cents to 95.79 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 104.39 cents Canadian, up 1.11 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.8889 ...

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Voltaire


I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Quentin Crisp


The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Aeschylus


I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Theodore Roosevelt


If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

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Quotes of the day - Hotair.com

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:55:00 GMT
“When the government fails to pass a socialism bill and the market goes south, let it go south .” “If it doesn’t get fixed in 2 weeks, by January some communities will be ...

Quick quotes from the fallout - CNEWS

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:55:00 GMT
Quotes Monday about the defeat of the U.S. government Wall Street bailout plan in Congress and the stock market fallout: "There's tremendous financial market volatility and also ...

Monday at 8.30pm - ONE News

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:41:00 GMT
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Tokyo stock-exchange Tue trading begins with slump - ITAR-TASS

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:51:00 GMT
TOKYO, September 30 (Itar-Tass) - Tuesday trading at the Tokyo stock exchange, the world's second largest one by the scope of transactions after the New York bourse, began with a ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:34:00 GMT
HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Asian stocks dropped sharply and the yen hit a 4-month high on Tuesday, after U.S. lawmakers' shock rejection of a $700 billion effort to end ...

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Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848


Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Marcus Valerius Martialis


There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Victor Hugo


Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Christopher Darlington Morley


There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:23:00 GMT
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Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:08:00 GMT
TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Spot gold rose more than 1 percent on Tuesday as safe-have buying gained momentum after the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a Wall Street bailout bill, sending stocks tumbling. ID:nN22402709] As of 0044 GMT Monday ...

Canadian dollar closed at 95.79 cents US, down 1.03 cents - Canada East

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:02:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed down 1.03 cents to 95.79 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 104.39 cents Canadian, up 1.11 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.8889, down 1.34 cents and US$1.8095, down 3.24 cents. The euro was worth C$1 ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:08:00 GMT
TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Spot gold rose more than 1 percent on Tuesday as safe-have buying gained momentum after the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a Wall Street bailout bill, sending stocks tumbling. ID:nN22402709] As of 0044 GMT Monday ...

Grain quotes, High Plains & Gulf - Houston Chronicle

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:43:00 GMT
— Texas High Plains cash grain markets closed: mostly 51 cents to 54 cents lower on grain sorghum, mostly 35 cents to 41 cents lower on wheat, 65 cents to 70 cents lower on soybeans, and mostly 30 cents to 40 cents lower on corn. Prices paid or bid ...

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Sir John Lubbock


Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Jerome Seymour Bruner


The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)


We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Lady Reading


The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:34:00 GMT
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:51:00 GMT
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