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Joseph Weizenbaum


The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

William J. Locke


I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Charles Darwin


A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.

Dag Hammarskjld


Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Kahlil Gibran


The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Cicero, De Legibus


Let the punishment match the offense.

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Quotes about Vermont state auditor's predicament - Boston Globe

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:33:00 GMT
"A member of the Armed Forces on active duty shall not ... participate in partisan political fundraising activities (except as permitted in subparagraph 4.1.1.7.), rallies, conventions (including making speeches in the course thereof), management of ...

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 ...

GLANCE Spanish stocks - Factors to watch on Monday - Forbes

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:45:00 GMT
The media group holds a conference call on results after reporting 9-month net profit of 207.28 million euros ($279 million), and could give an update on plans to sell its pay-TV unit Digital+. Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All ...

High quotations stall destitute housing scheme - Mmegi Online

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:05:00 GMT
Assistant Minister for Local Government, Ambrose Masalila has revealed that the state housing scheme for the destitute has stalled since 2002 because of exorbitant quotations from contractors. "I can say the scheme goes even beyond 2002, because when ...

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Dave Thomas


Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Barry Neil Kaufman


A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops


While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

D. Elton Trueblood


Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting


She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.

Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003


Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Oscar Wilde


Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Aristotle, Politics (quoting a proverb)


Well begun is half done.

Natalie Goldberg


Anything you fully do is an alone journey.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1


Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Kim Hubbard


A good front is half the battle in love or war.

George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"


Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

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Economic Prognosis - Kommersant

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:27:00 GMT
The global stock market crisis was the main event in January which also affected Russia. On January 21, Russia’s benchmark RTS , which surged above 2,300 points in mid-January ...

King of reggae - Calgary Sun

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:19:00 GMT
Over those 36 years he emerged from crushing poverty in Jamaica to become one of the biggest musical and cultural icons of our time. In Bob Marley: A Life, veteran UK and Canadian ...

GOP attacks on American voters turn desperate - Scoop

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:22:00 GMT
The GOP assault on American voters has hit full stride as the economy and John McCain tank in synch. With just over three weeks until election day, the Republicans have mounted an ...

Economic Prognosis - Kommersant

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:27:00 GMT
The global stock market crisis was the main event in January which also affected Russia. On January 21, Russia’s benchmark RTS , which surged above 2,300 points in mid-January ...

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One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

Latin Proverb


By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

Primo Levi


A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

La Bruyere


We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

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ET Guide - Egypt Today

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:13:00 GMT
“I’ve been writing since I was 18. I read first for pleasure, answers, escape, to encounter my selves in various disguises, and the next step was to unpack my own impressions ...

A Rendezvous With Destiny, Cast in Bronze - Wall Street Journal

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:51:00 GMT
WASHINGTON -- The five life-sized bronze men line up, in hats and overcoats, their shoulders slumped. Outside a closed door, they wait for bread or, perhaps, a job. Eva Durak, 31 ...

TFN NEWS BRIEFING: TMT highlights to 15:40 BST - Forbes

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:54:00 GMT
Neither the Subscriber nor Thomson Financial News warrants the completeness or accuracy of the Service or the suitability of the Service as a trading aid and neither accepts any ...

A Rendezvous With Destiny, Cast in Bronze - Wall Street Journal

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:51:00 GMT
WASHINGTON -- The five life-sized bronze men line up, in hats and overcoats, their shoulders slumped. Outside a closed door, they wait for bread or, perhaps, a job. Eva Durak, 31 ...

McCain casts himself as middle-class guardian - Kansas City Star

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:50:00 GMT
US Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gestures as he quotes his Democratic presidential opponent Sen Barack Obama, D-Ill., during a campaign rally at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio ...

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Austin O'Malley


A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it.

Carlos Fuentes


What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Sir Anthony Hawkins


Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

John Milton


But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818


In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

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Ad hoc notification in accordance with § 15 of the German Securities ... - PressePortal.de

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:53:00 GMT
CLARIFICATION OF TODAY'S PRESS QUOTES: Arcandor would like to clarify that in connection with the currently agreed financing structure it is still reviewing its holding structure ...

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Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:06:00 GMT
“The Americans,” wrote Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, “in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise.” Writing ...

"Es ist immer Eishockey" - Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:50:00 GMT
Kassel. Als der überraschende Sieg perfekt, der Spitzenreiter geschlagen war, da erinnerte Stéphane Richer an einen seiner Vorgänger. "Es gab hier mal einen sehr guten Eishockey ...

Ad hoc notification in accordance with § 15 of the German Securities ... - PressePortal.de

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:53:00 GMT
CLARIFICATION OF TODAY'S PRESS QUOTES: Arcandor would like to clarify that in connection with the currently agreed financing structure it is still reviewing its holding structure ...

SQL-Injection - Angriff und Abwehr - Heise

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:29:00 GMT
Webshops, News-Boards, Groupware- und Content-Management-Systeme setzen Datenbanken ein, um darin Kundendaten, Artikel und Texte abzulegen. Oft trifft der Besucher solch einer ...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

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.

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.

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.

Edward R. Murrow


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

Barbara J. Winter


When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12


Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

M. H. Alderson


If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.

Frederick Buechner


Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Eli Khamarov


... the inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation.

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QUOTES: "It felt good." - Stanford.scout.com

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:46:00 GMT
"I thought we did a great job. Washington 's young quarterback made a lot of big plays. We didn't play the deep ball very well and they took advantage of it. I thought nothing we ...

Cougars hope to keep scoring streak alive - Seattle Times

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:02:00 GMT
The beleaguered Cougars host fourth-ranked USC without real hope, but with the weight — maybe the burden — of history. They have this streak going, second-longest active one in ...

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Allies, enemies - Boston Globe

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:07:00 GMT
Once part of the British Empire, the United States now enfolds its former colonial master beneath the wings of its own empire (or hegemony, for those in denial), furnishing the ...

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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.

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

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!

William Penn


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

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.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

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.

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.

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London Stock Exchange quotations - Monsters and Critics

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:41:00 GMT
#> FT-100 Index 3,861.39 (- 218.20) (- 5.35%) BAT Industries 1,635.00 (- 51.00) (- 3.02%) BP Amoco 408.00 (- 6.25) (- 1.51%) Diageo 821.50 (- 26.00) (- 3.07%) HSBC Holdings 771.50 (- 32.00) (- 3.98%) Prudential 302.25 (- 67.75) (-18.31%) R.Dutch ...

Allies, enemies - Boston Globe

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:07:00 GMT
Once part of the British Empire, the United States now enfolds its former colonial master beneath the wings of its own empire (or hegemony, for those in denial), furnishing the United Kingdom with American weapons and expecting it to support US ...

China Sunday quotes: Honda - Autosport.com

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:25:00 GMT
Rubens Barrichello - 11th: "It was a better race today than some of our recent races but it is disappointing not to have been able to get into the points. I had a great start and first lap where I overtook three cars to move up to 10th and went flat ...

The Times explains Shreveport's 2004 airport leases - The Shreveport Times

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:57:00 GMT
Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover is looking for a way out of $1-an-acre mineral leases he calls a bad deal on the part of his predecessor, Mayor Keith Hightower. Glover has hired a New Orleans firm to see if Shreveport has a chance to free up more than ...

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