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Sunday, November 16, 2008

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John Churton Collins


In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Andr Maurois


The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Dwight D Eisenhower


That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

Lefty Gomez


I'd rather be lucky than good.

Joseph Stalin


The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

So I Married an Axe Murderer


Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future


No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot.

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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:34:00 GMT
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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:52:00 GMT
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Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:48:00 GMT
Jermain Taylor and Jeff Lacy came face to face on Thursday during their final press conference at the McGugin Center in Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. The two former USA Olympic ...

World media: NZ election vote 'as reasoned as a doped slug' - New Zealand Herald

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:18:00 GMT
Melbourne's Herald Sun got stuck in to Kiwis. The world press have given mixed reviews of New Zealand's election with some writing of a desire for change while others have likened ...

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

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.

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


Know thyself.

William James


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

Douglas Noel Adams


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

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.

David Dean Rusk


The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Richard Milhous Nixon


My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Anonymous


Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.

Trisha Yearwood


What's meant to be will always find a way.

Barbara Bush


The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

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Has Jamie's Ministry of Food worked in Rotherham? - Guardian Unlimited

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:33:00 GMT
When Jamie's Ministry of Food screened on Channel 4 last month, a trail of newspaper columns and blogs flapped in its wake like discarded burger wrappers in a deserted shopping ...

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Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:06:00 GMT
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Canadian dollar is down 0.96 of a cent at 81.58 cents US at 11 a.m. ET - Canada East

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 81.58 cents US this morning, down 0.96 of a cent from Thursday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.58 cents Cdn, up 1.43 cents. Pound ...

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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!

Jerry Coleman


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

Kelly Marshall


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

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Victor Hugo


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

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

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.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

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.

Wystan Hugh Auden


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

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Niels Henrik David Bohr


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

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.

Sophocles


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

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.

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.

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

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.

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Canadian dollar is down 0.96 of a cent at 81.58 cents US at 11 a.m. ET - Canada East

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 81.58 cents US this morning, down 0.96 of a cent from Thursday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.58 cents Cdn, up 1.43 cents. Pound ...

Canadian dollar closed down 0.94 of a cent to 81.60 cents US - Canada East

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:04:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 81.60 US, falling 0.94 of a cent on Friday. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.55 cents Cdn, up 1.40 cents. Pound sterling closed at C$1.8135, up ...

Quotations of the day - Asheville Citizen-Times

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:14:00 GMT
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William Penn


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

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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.

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.

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Quotations of the day - Asheville Citizen-Times

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:14:00 GMT
"It looked like lava coming down a volcano." — Leslie Hollis Lopez of Montecito, Calif., where an explosive wildfire destroyed about 70 homes Thursday. "I would say 'Imagine your ...

Quotes from govt support agreement announcements - National Business Review

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:44:00 GMT
Some quotes from today's announcements on deals to support the incoming National government: * "Today is a very, very important day, certainly for the National Party, and it's very ...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Germaine Greer


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

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Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:13:00 GMT
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Confucius, The Confucian Analects


With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

Ronald Firbank


The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984


My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce.

Mark Twain


It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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