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Charles Baudelaire


It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Daniel Day Lewis


You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Lady Duff-Gordon


Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

Aesop


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

Max R. Hickerson


A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Real Live Preacher


Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Helen Rowland


Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them.

Carlos Santana, Television program--aired on VH1, september 2000


There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Martin Niemller


In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.

Jackie Onassis


Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Paul Valery


What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

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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 hit marketing budgets. Media planning and buying firm ZenithOptimedia ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:11:00 GMT
The median house price in Perth has fallen 10 per cent since December last year, Western Australia's real estate lobby group says. The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia (REIWA) said it had recorded a four per cent drop in the value of ...

Icelandic crown, money market trade dries up - dealers - Forbes

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:44:00 GMT
LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Icelandic financial markets ground to a halt on Friday as traders reported hardly any trades in the crown currency and money markets, while the local stock exchange remains shut until next week. There have been no trades ...

Adwatch: Amendment 2 opponents release 2nd Fla. ad - Miami Herald

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:41:00 GMT
LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: Amendment 2 opponents could start airing it with their other ad in South Florida as early as this week. SCRIPT: Announcer: "All over Florida people are saying No on Amendment 2: the League of Women Voters, the Florida ...

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Henri Frdric Amiel


To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Howard Aiken


Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

John Lancaster Spalding


As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Tom Landry


Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Prince Charles, of Wales


Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

Charles Scribner, Jr.


Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.

Dazed and Confused


Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

Thomas Troward


We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3


To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Robert Anthony


Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Mark Twain


There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:20:00 GMT
"We're beginning a downward spiral, not just in finance ... but in the whole economy. We need quick action." — Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. "It jumped the ridge and came ...

Republicans beat Ayers drum - Boston Globe

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:26:00 GMT
The Republican National Committee is getting even tougher in its language attempting to link Barack Obama to 1970s domestic terrorist William Ayers. A new web video emphasizes ...

Interbank Hryvnia Rate Down By 20 Kopecks To 5.2 UAH/USD - Ukrainian News

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:26:00 GMT
On Monday, the interbank hryvnia rate fell by 20 kopecks to 5.2 UAH/USD, after remaining unchanged on Friday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the ...

Sympathy notes fine when a pet has died - Star News Online

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:57:00 GMT
Q I have always been a pet lover. My cats and dogs have always been important to me, but especially since my children all moved away and got married, and I am now a widow. Knowing ...

Report on Scripture in the Americas - Zenit

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:46:00 GMT
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 13, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is an unofficial Vatican translation of the address Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, gave ...

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Colonel William Prescott


Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet


And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.


Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

Unknown


Forgiveness does not mean the cancellation of all consequences of wrong doing. It means the refusal on God's part to let our guilty past affect His relationship with us.

Jane Austen, Emma


How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

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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 ...

Faith leaders promote peace - Guardian Unlimited

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:11:00 GMT
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to join Christian and Muslim scholars for the start of a conference aimed at promoting understanding between the two faiths. Dr Williams and the Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali Gomaa will be among ...

San Jose Mercury Dealer Quotes - Colleyville Courier

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:05:00 GMT
When Local Dealers Compete, You Could Save Big On A New Mercury . Compare 9 subscription options ranging from $12-$99. Save up to 50% and pay as little as $0.94 per week. Review details and subscribe to the San Jose Mercury News today. Compare 9 ...

SOKO Fitness & Spa Group, Inc. to Hold 2009 Q1 Earnings Call on Oct ... - MSN MoneyCentral

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:51:00 GMT
HARBIN, China , Oct. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- Harbin Mege Union Beauty Management Ltd., wholly owned by SOKO Fitness & Spa Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOKF), a Delaware corporation, announced that it will release 2009 first-quarter ...

Icelandic crown, money market trade dries up - dealers - Forbes

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:44:00 GMT
LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Icelandic financial markets ground to a halt on Friday as traders reported hardly any trades in the crown currency and money markets, while the local stock exchange remains shut until next week. There have been no trades ...

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Anouk Aimee


Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Josh Billings


Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Russell Smith


An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

Albert Einstein


When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Thomas Jefferson


Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Mark Twain


"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

William Shakespeare


Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

Stewart B. Johnson


Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Walter Cronkite


In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy


My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)

Kristen Ashley Roth


Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

Leo C. Rosten


Satire is focused bitterness.

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

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:16:00 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 ...

Report on Scripture in the Americas - Zenit

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:46:00 GMT
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 13, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is an unofficial Vatican translation of the address Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, gave ...

Republicans beat Ayers drum - Boston Globe

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:26:00 GMT
The Republican National Committee is getting even tougher in its language attempting to link Barack Obama to 1970s domestic terrorist William Ayers. A new web video emphasizes ...

Alaskan author Charles Wohlforth who wrote a piece in The New Republic - Huffingtonpost.com

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:20:00 GMT
about how he and his wife broke into laughter when he heard that Sarah Palin was McCain's choice said today, "I was writing a travel book and I told my readers, 'avoid Wasilla. It ...

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Latest greatest Famous Quotations

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Hubert Humphrey


When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Jerry Seinfeld


There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."

Roy Rogers


They'll have to shoot me first to take my gun.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"


#3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.

Maya Angelou


Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Tom Lehrer


I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Henry David Thoreau


Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

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Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:21:00 GMT
On Monday, the interbank hryvnia rate fell by 20 kopecks to 5.2 UAH/USD, after remaining unchanged on Friday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the ...

The Best Ever: Bond Quotes - Entertainment.uk.msn.com

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:49:00 GMT
"The name's Bond, James Bond." There are some quotes in the long-running James Bond franchise that everyone knows. But Bond, being a quick witted and articulate individual ...

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Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

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.

Victor Hugo


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

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

William James


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

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.

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Archbishop eyes inter-faith peace - Guardian Unlimited

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:01:00 GMT
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that Christians and Muslims faced an "extensive and demanding" agenda as they searched for peace and understanding. But Dr Rowan Williams ...

Christians and Muslims face 'demanding search for peace' - yorkshirepost

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:47:00 GMT
The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday warned that Christians and Muslims faced an "extensive and demanding" agenda as they searched for peace and understanding. But Dr Rowan ...

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