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Persian Proverb


It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.

Peter De Vries


There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

Origen


Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Bishop Creighton


The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Henry David Thoreau


True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Lee Iacocca


You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Niels Bohr


Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

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Charlotte: Dodge NASCAR Sprint Cup Practice Recap, Quotes - PaddockTalk

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:50:00 GMT
HOW WAS PRACTICE? "It was good. We learned a lot. We were second fastest in the first session and our car was good on long runs. We weren’t as fast in the second practice, but we got the car better. I’m looking forward to tomorrow night. I think ...

Devcon International Corp. Files Form 15 to Voluntarily Deregister Its ... - MSN MoneyCentral

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:55:00 GMT
BOCA RATON, Fla. , Oct. 10 -- Devcon International Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: DEVC.OB) announced today that it has filed a Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to voluntarily deregister its common stock under the Securities ...

Quotes of the week from around the world - MSN Singapore

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:50:00 GMT
"There's no longer the need for those sorts of extreme sounds." - Academic Bruce Moore, whose new book argues that the classic Australian twang, such as pronouncing 'mate' like 'mite', is disappearing as the nation shakes off its colonial roots

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:57:00 GMT
Commodities prices fell sharply this week as fears mounted that the crisis in financial markets would drag the global economy into a deep recession. The Reuters-Jefferies CRB index, a global benchmark for commodities, fell 10.1 per cent on the week ...

London Stock Exchange quotations - Monsters and Critics

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:15:00 GMT
BAT Industries 1,450.00 (- 160.00) (- 9.94 %) BP Amoco 376.25 (- 33.25) (- 8.12 %) Diageo 794.00 (- 44.00) (- 5.25 %) HSBC Holdings 790.00 (- 70.00) (- 8.14 %) Prudential 378.25 (- 44.25) (- 10.47 %) R.Dutch Shell 'A' 1,303.00 (- 134.00) (- 9.32 %) R ...

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R. E. Phillips


But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Isaac Asimov


I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Johann von Goethe


A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.

Henri Bergson


Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

William Lloyd Garrison


With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992


One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854


Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

Unknown


He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

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Obama, Dems go after McCain's honor - Salon

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:16:00 GMT
Barack Obama's campaign is taking the gloves off and hitting John McCain where -- Democratic strategists hope -- it hurts. It's using the recent, and lengthy, record of the McCain ...

French sites fined for linking to privacy-invading content - Out-Law

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:20:00 GMT
Three French websites have been found guilty of invading an actor's privacy for publishing links to articles containing the offending material. The Paris Tribunal has fined the ...

Ron Paul, racist? - Salon

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:20:00 GMT
Ever since Texas Rep. Ron Paul first became a known figure in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, there has been discussion about his alleged ties to white ...

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 ...

Clarifying The First Amendment Necessary - Tyler Morning Telegraph

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:42:00 GMT
Look, if you want a guaranteed audience that will listen to your crackpot theories, weird observations and uninspired opinions, do what I did -- become a teacher. But first, please ...

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Mark Twain


When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan


No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

Maria Montessori


Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Calvin Trillin


Health food makes me sick.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher


If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

Jeseph Joubert


I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Lisa Alther


I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Sybil Adelman


Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

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Reference Books - Wall Street Journal

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:59:00 GMT
1. The World Almanac and Book of Facts World Almanac Books, 2008 Online research has supplanted the central role that reference books used to play in millions of households, but there is still no substitute for the tactile pleasure or serendipitous ...

Google in Quotes a great tool for democracy - Globe and Mail

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:53:00 GMT
Further proof — as though any were needed — that the brains trust at Google are a bright bunch comes with the unveiling of an experimental website called “Google In Quotes” that places quotations on any given subject from the two U.S ...

India FIMMDA-REUTERS-MIOIS for six mths 7.91 pct - Reuters India

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:01:00 GMT
The above rate is the mid-rate taken from a simple average of the bid and offer quoted by 17 market participants. For participants' names and quotes, please double-click on IRS01 or type IRS01 followed by an Enter key. For benchmark levels, please ...

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Dominique Bouhours


The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Virgil


Nunc scio quit sit amor.

Hunter S. Thompson


A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

Grace Speare


Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

George Washington Carver


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.

Benjamin Franklin


Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Herodotus


Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

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Feeding on markets' meltdown fear - Stuff

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:02:00 GMT
"When people see share prices going from whatever they are to zero, and the fear is out there that a particular institution could be next, you salvage whatever you can, don't you ...

Rabbi asks Pope, synod leaders to speak out to defend Israel - NZ Catholic

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:59:00 GMT
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Israeli Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi of Haifa, asked Pope Benedict XVI and top Catholic leaders to continue learning to appreciate the Jewish ...

Obama, Dems go after McCain's honor - Salon

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:16:00 GMT
Barack Obama's campaign is taking the gloves off and hitting John McCain where -- Democratic strategists hope -- it hurts. It's using the recent, and lengthy, record of the McCain ...

Our Daily Bleg: Has a Debate Produced Anything Like “You’re No ... - New York Times Blogs

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:22:00 GMT
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro , editor of the Yale Book of Quotations , is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have anything to do ...

Daily Voice « - Village Voice

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:19:00 GMT
"There's something very intimate about being next to someone who you don't know that well when they're unconscious," Miranda July says over breakfast one recent morning in Chelsea ...

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Unknown


A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Buddha


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Rita Mae Brown


For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Marcius Porcius Cato


Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)

G. K. Chesterton


Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Hal Borland


If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

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Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:34:00 GMT
"Right now the market is just panicked. Nobody wants to take on any risk. Everybody just wants to get their money and put it under the mattress.'' -- David Wyss, chief economist at ...

Quotations for Russian Minfin bonds - Interfax Information Agency

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:24:00 GMT
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Banking on the best forex deal - New Zealand Herald Blogs

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:59:00 GMT
Banks are like any business and will charge what a competitive market will bear for their services. They are there to make money for their shareholders, and a nasty person might ...

BUSINESS - MARKET WATCH - Al Jazeera

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:17:00 GMT
The charts allow you to receive market data in a variety of formats. Left click on any chart to change its options and customize the format of data presentation. Click on DETACH to ...

Comments sought on city hall sculpture - Columbia Daily Tribune

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:58:00 GMT
The city of Columbia is seeking public input about public art slated to stand outside the new city hall building. Artist Howard Meehan has given the working title "Keys to the City ...

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