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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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Brad Bell


True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Phyllis Diller


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

John Dryden


Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Colin Greenwood


In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these gun registration records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus


Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Publilius Syrus


Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Alex Levin


The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.

George Barrell Cheever


For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

Karl Menninger


Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

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Posted Monday, September 29, at 11:54 PM - Fort Scott Tribune

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:38:00 GMT
My grandfather is a "retired" roofer. Why the quotations around retired? Well, that is because the only thing retirement changed is one word of his vocabulary -- work. That's right ...

McCain contracts fall more than 10 percent - Iowa City Press-Citizen

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:12:00 GMT
Prices for Republican presidential candidate John McCain tumbled more than 10 percent in trading on the Iowa Electronic Markets over the weekend, so traders now think he has less ...

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Jacques Martin Barzun


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Baba Ram Dass


Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Eric Hoffer


The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Eric Bently


Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Henry David Thoreau


If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If you wear a toupee, why not let your friends try it on for a while Come on, we're not going to hurt it.

Ursula K. LeGuin


Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

George Orwell


Big Brother is watching you.

Annie Lennox


Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

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Posted Monday, September 29, at 11:54 PM - Fort Scott Tribune

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:38:00 GMT
My grandfather is a "retired" roofer. Why the quotations around retired? Well, that is because the only thing retirement changed is one word of his vocabulary -- work. That's right ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:36:00 GMT
HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Australia's Sundance Resources is seeking a strategic partner for its more than $3 billion Cameroon iron ore project, sources familiar with ...

Quotations by Paul Newman - Miami Herald

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 ...

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn


A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel


Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

James Joyce


Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

Louis de Saint-Just


Keep cool and you command everybody.

Rudyard Kipling


The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.

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Sanofi gets approval for new Zentiva bid expansion - Forbes

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:41:00 GMT
PRAGUE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The Czech central bank said on Tuesday Sanofi-Aventis can go ahead with its improved bid for Czech drugs maker Zentiva. Sanofi, which is Zentiva's ...

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Monday at 8.30pm - ONE News

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:24:00 GMT
'No greater honour will ever be bestowed upon an officer, than when they are entrusted with an investigation into the death of a human being.' Four young lives, focused on justice ...

Posted Monday, September 29, at 11:54 PM - Fort Scott Tribune

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:38:00 GMT
My grandfather is a "retired" roofer. Why the quotations around retired? Well, that is because the only thing retirement changed is one word of his vocabulary -- work. That's right ...

Celebrating OED’s 80th - Yale Daily News

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:00 GMT
If there was ever any question that Yale has left its mark on the world, Fred Shapiro answered it — with a resounding yes. According to Shapiro, a frequent contributor to the ...

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Samuel Johnson


When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 1


Out, damned spot! out, I say!

E.B. White


I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Mother Teresa, -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.


Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

William Ralph Inge


The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Ambrose Bierce


Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

John Updike


There are times when fear is good It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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MCCAIN WON DEBATE ON WISDOM - MichNews.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:25:00 GMT
There is nothing like wisdom accumulated over time. Of course, every mortal has his flaws. John McCain being mortal fits right in there. If America wanted perfection, it would have ...

Lewand uninterested in full-power CEO position - Ann Arbor News Blog

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:50:00 GMT
Some have intimated that Tom Lewand, who is taking over many of Matt Millen's responsibilities, will use the remainder of the season to cement his status as a contender for "King ...

Livestock report - Houston Chronicle

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Monday's opening cattle and hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE — Estimated receipts: 7,500; last week: 9,450; last year: 7 ...

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George Henry Lewes


The only cure for grief is action.

John Wilson


Oh for a book and a shady nook...

Paul Gruchow


It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan


A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Alexis Carrel


To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Bible


The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

Marquis de Sade


The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Unknown, Legal Maxim


An act against my will is not my act.

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Fergie 'breaks off press relations' - Irish Times

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:40:00 GMT
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has reportedly ended his co-operation with the press following quotes attributed to him in pre-season. According to The Guardian, Ferguson ...

Posted Monday, September 29, at 11:54 PM - Fort Scott Tribune

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:38:00 GMT
My grandfather is a "retired" roofer. Why the quotations around retired? Well, that is because the only thing retirement changed is one word of his vocabulary -- work. That's right ...

The Quotes Of The Week - Football365.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:03:00 GMT
* "A cataclysmic cock-up" - Gary Megson's view of Rob Styles' unfathomable penalty award for Manchester United against his Bolton side. * "Rob turned down four or five for us last ...

Livestock report - Houston Chronicle

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Monday's opening cattle and hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE — Estimated receipts: 7,500; last week: 9,450; last year: 7 ...

MCCAIN WON DEBATE ON WISDOM - MichNews.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:25:00 GMT
There is nothing like wisdom accumulated over time. Of course, every mortal has his flaws. John McCain being mortal fits right in there. If America wanted perfection, it would have ...

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Logan Pearsall Smith


There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Charles Simmons


Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.

Ivy Baker Priest


Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

Grover Cleveland


There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff


Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.

Rick Moranis


Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Socrates


He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Irish Proverb


Better be quarreling than lonesome.

Sallust


The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Gabrid Garcia Marquez


No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Aesop


No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.

Earnie Larsen


Goal achievement is hero's work.

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MCCAIN WON DEBATE ON WISDOM - MichNews.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:25:00 GMT
There is nothing like wisdom accumulated over time. Of course, every mortal has his flaws. John McCain being mortal fits right in there. If America wanted perfection, it would have ...

Monday at 8.30pm - ONE News

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:24:00 GMT
'No greater honour will ever be bestowed upon an officer, than when they are entrusted with an investigation into the death of a human being.' Four young lives, focused on justice ...

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Helen Hayes


From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why It would take about a billion ants just to AIM a gun at me, let alone fire it. And you know what I'm doing while they're aiming it at me I just sort of slip off to the side, and then suddenly run up and kick the gun out of their hands.

Roger King


I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.

Scott Ringenbach


Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.

Phaedrus


Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Unknown


Give, and forget Receive, and remember

Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)


The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:10:00 GMT
Following the news of price hikes from the 'Big Six' UK energy companies, Fairinvestment.co.uk has found that gas and electricity ( www.fairinvestment.co.uk/gas_and_electricity ...

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Aldous Huxley


Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Carl Jung


Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

Queen Victoria, in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848


Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Sir Walter Scott


Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Blaise Pascal


Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Henry Bromel


History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Hellen Keller


College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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Poland - Factors to Watch on Sept 30 - Reuters

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:44:00 GMT
Share Hungary's largest bank OTP OTPB.BU aims to join Warsaw's main WIG20 index .WIG20 in the middle of 2009 after a dual listing on the Polish stock exchange by year-end, its ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:41:00 GMT
"Doing nothing is not an option." — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer after seeing the $700 billion emergency package for the nation's financial systems fail. "I went to ...

Livestock report - Houston Chronicle

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Monday's opening cattle and hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE — Estimated receipts: 7,500; last week: 9,450; last year: 7 ...

Monday Practice Report - Stanford.scout.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:50:00 GMT
The USC Trojans returned to the practice field on Monday determined to bounce back from their upset loss against Oregon State. SCPlaybook's Kevin Carden was there and brings you ...

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 ...