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Author Unknown


It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993


Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

Author Unknown


It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

Judith Viorst


But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it.

Jerry Garcia


Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Ben J. Wattenberg


The plural of anecdote is data.

Sheila Graham


Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Brendan Behan


When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Sir Thomas Browne


Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003


I grow more intense as I age.

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Sarkozy threatens to sue over doll with 'voodoo manual' - Edinburgh News

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:50:00 GMT
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company unless it withdraws a Sarkozy doll that comes with a "voodoo manual" instructing readers to plant pins ...

Editorial: Time to float fuel prices - Jakarta Post

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:00 GMT
Given the presidential election later next year, it must be a great temptation for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to lower domestic fuel prices since international crude oil ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:17:00 GMT
LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Oil fell below $70 a barrel on Wednesday, pressured by a gloomy outlook for the global economy that could limit the impact of any supply cuts OPEC might ...

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Eugene McCarthy


The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Italian Proverb


Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky


Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle


If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Edwin H. Land


Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

H. L. Mencken


Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

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Mourinho For Old Trafford? - Bleacherreport.com

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:36:00 GMT
Some very interesting quotes from the special one Jose Mourinho this week who said that he wants to manage in England again once his reign at the San Siro is over. Mourinho told ...

Rosario Dawson Is Just SO Happy To See You! - Defamer.com

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:26:00 GMT
Popular film actress Rosario Dawson appeared to be very excited about unloading some negative energy and loading up on the positive vibes at a Los Angeles loading station. Dawson ...

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George Santayana


Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Brenda Ueland


Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

Stephen Jay Gould


The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)


Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity 'happen.'

Rush Hour


Carter This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON


Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

Hannibal


We will either find a way, or make one

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Does every actor dream of Hamlet? - Kerrville Daily Times

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:50:00 GMT
Hearing as a child that every actor dreams of playing Hamlet, I wondered, “How could anybody know what every actor in the world wants to do?” It was the kind of question that I ...

Your search yielded no results. Please try another keyword - Top News India

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:03:00 GMT
Check if your spelling is correct. Remove quotes around phrases to match each word individually: "blue smurf" will match less than blue smurf . Consider loosening your query with ...

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Anonymous


Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965


We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Seneca


If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976


Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects


Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

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Phils get feel for Tropicana Field - Detroit Free Press

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:58:00 GMT
The Philadelphia Phillies are getting their workouts in at Tropicana Field, and nobody seems to think playing indoors will be a problem in the World Series. Manager Charlie Manuel ...

Willingham's Tuesday coachspeak - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:00 GMT
-Yawn- I recently woke up from Tyrone Willingham 's brief portion of the Pac-10 coaches teleconference and don't have a lot to provide you in terms of news, insight or ...

Vienna agrees with Prague bourse owners on sale terms - Forbes

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:41:00 GMT
PRAGUE, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Vienna stock market operator Wiener Boerse and a group of shareholders in the Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) have agreed on terms to sell a majority stake ...

Editorial: Time to float fuel prices - Jakarta Post

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:00 GMT
Given the presidential election later next year, it must be a great temptation for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to lower domestic fuel prices since international crude oil ...

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G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)


All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Aimee Mullins


Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown


One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

John Ruskin


We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

A. L. Prusick


It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.

Oscar Wilde


We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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CNinsure to Announce Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results and - MSN MoneyCentral

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:38:00 GMT
GUANGZHOU, China , Oct. 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CNinsure Inc. CISG , a leading independent insurance intermediary company operating in China, today announced that it ...

Editorial: Time to float fuel prices - Jakarta Post

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:31:00 GMT
Given the presidential election later next year, it must be a great temptation for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to lower domestic fuel prices since international crude oil ...

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Alice Kahn


For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Richard von Weizscker


Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Richard Jefferies


It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine.

Edith Sitwell


Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

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Ambassador's reception - Guardian Unlimited

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:29:00 GMT
Oprah Winfrey is rumoured to be in the frame as potential Democratic ambassador to the UK, claims the Daily Express's Hickey column as it quotes snippets from FT chief foreign ...

Vienna agrees with Prague bourse owners on sale terms - Forbes

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:41:00 GMT
PRAGUE, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Vienna stock market operator Wiener Boerse and a group of shareholders in the Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) have agreed on terms to sell a majority stake ...

CNinsure to Announce Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results and - MSN MoneyCentral

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:38:00 GMT
GUANGZHOU, China , Oct. 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CNinsure Inc. CISG , a leading independent insurance intermediary company operating in China, today announced that it ...

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