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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

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Simonides


Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

T.S. Eliot


Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Joyce Brothers


No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.

Saki


Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson


If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.

Benjamin Disraeli


Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.

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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:39:00 GMT
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High School Notes & Quotes - Modesto Bee

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:42:00 GMT
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Anon.


Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Ernest Hemingway


Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Thomas Elisha Stewart


Men have become fools with their tools.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Dwight D Eisenhower


No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

James Grover Thurber


The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Kevin Meyers


When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.

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Lao Tzu


It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

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.

Christine Bovee


Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Rita Mae Brown


A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

C. C. Colton


Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Jean Anouilh


Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Oscar Wilde


America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Walter Bagehot


One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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'Life for life' plan sparks call for death - Stuff

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:02:00 GMT
HARDLINE STANCE: National's new stance on serious offenders announced by leader John Key, has prompted calls to bring back the death penalty. National's hardline stance on our most ...

Economic Prognosis - Kommersant

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:46:00 GMT
The key economic event of September was Russia’s involvement in the world financial crisis. With its stocks depreciating a quarter within a month, Russia became one of the major ...

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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:29:00 GMT
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Robert Pirsig


Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

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.

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Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Sophocles


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

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(Adds more details, quotes) - Reuters

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:39:00 GMT
LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A leading international media buyer slashed its global advertising spend forecasts for 2008 and 2009 on Tuesday, in a sign that the financial crisis has ...

County accepts 2 road salt quotes - Lebanon Reporter

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:27:00 GMT
Lebanon — Cutting salt from a diet is a good thing; eliminating salt from the county highway budget is not. Faced with a virtual “now or else” decision, the Boone County ...

Canadian dollar is trading two cents higher at 90.46 cents US at 11 a ... - Canada East

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:27:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 90.46 cents US, down two cents on Monday. The U.S. dollar was trading at C$1.1054, up 2.39 cents. Pound sterling was at C$1.9245, up 0.66 of ...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Caleb Carr


So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

Kelly Marshall


It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.

John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

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Jean Baptiste Lacoraire


The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen

James T. Farrell


If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

Julie Arabi


The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Phyllis


We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Theodore Roosevelt


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Stephen Hawking


For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

John Dryden


Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Benjamin Franklin


He that can have patience can have what he will.

Mark Twain


Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:41:00 GMT
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Let the games begin - Stuff

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:41:00 GMT
So the Prime Minister has finally done the decent thing and put us all out of our misery with an election date . November 8 was no surprise. But the timing of the announcement was ...

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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:36:00 GMT
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