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Thursday, October 02, 2008

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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


Change everything except your loves.

Richard M. Nixon


I would have made a good Pope.

Friedrich von Hardenberg Novalis


We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince


There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Simone Weil


Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

William Penn


Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Epictetus, Serendipity


If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Gore Vidal


A good deed never goes unpunished.

Ogden Nash


Nietsche is Pietsche."

H. L. Mencken


Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Bhagavad Gita


God is seated in the hearts of all.

Ralph Kiner


There's a lot of heredity in that family.

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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:25:00 GMT
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Sir Walter Scott


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

Dag Hammarskjold


Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Jeff Pesis


Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

I Ching


Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)


Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

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Honore' de Balzac


When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Kin Hubbard


Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, 'Dust to dust,' some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, 'I'll be waiting for you in heaven---with a gun.'

Galileo Galilei


I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Mickey Lolich


All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'

Dwight D Eisenhower


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

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Quotations by Paul Newman - Associated Press

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:11:00 GMT
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English Proverb


A stumble may prevent a fall.

Charles Caleb Colton


We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Mohammed Neguib


Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

George Bernard Shaw


Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Author Unknown


Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:52:00 GMT
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Quotations by Paul Newman - Associated Press

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:11:00 GMT
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Charles Lamb


Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.

Anon.


He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Diana Nyad


If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

Oscar Wilde


Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface


The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:42:00 GMT
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Annie Lennox


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

Publilius Syrus


Practice is the best of all instructors.

Woody Allen


Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought---particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

Mother Theresa


We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Homer, The Odyssey


Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

1 Peter 47-8 Bible


The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Benjamin Franklin


Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Jean Anouilh


Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

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H. L. Mencken


Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Zeno


The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

David Letterman


Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

Mark Twain


Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Harvey Firestone


It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Blaise Pascal


For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Andre Gide


Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:03:00 GMT
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Indira Gandhi


You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.

Barber B. Conable, Jr


I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Christian Nestell


The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

David Borenstein


Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

Paul Wiener


But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Aeschylus


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

Alexander Smith


Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Felix Frankfurter


Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

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Quotes from the vice presidential candidates - The Ledger

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:27:00 GMT
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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:17:00 GMT
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