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Frank Zappa


There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

Harold Bloom


We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Mark Twain


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)


Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Mark Twain


We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

G. Campbell Morgan


The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

Seneca


We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

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Oshiomhole vows to make Edo leaders in Sports - Vanguard

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:27:00 GMT
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said weekend in Benin that the Bendel Insurance Football Club would be repositioned and adequately funded to enable it return to its ...

Van der Garde: It was a great day - Planet F1

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:59:00 GMT
Giedo van der Garde enjoyed his return to the F1 paddock on Monday when he tested with Renault at the Barcelona circuit. The former Spyker test driver put in his first laps in a F1 ...

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Son's snake bite serves as lesson and reminder - St. Petersburg Times

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:19:00 GMT
Our son Jacob was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. Given that we live in the midst of the Brooker Creek Preserve, surrounded by beauty and wildlife, this could have happened just ...

StatoilHydro says awarded two Canadian licences - Forbes

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
OSLO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil and gas group StatoilHydro said on Tuesday it had been awarded an interest in two exploration licences offshore Canada. The company will ...

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German proverb


Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977


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Frank Herbert


The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Wayne Gretzky


I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.

Elizabeth Taylor


It's not the having, its the getting.

Ogden Nash


People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Maya Angelou


We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Lillian Hellman


I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

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Reading Films - Egypt Today

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:19:00 GMT
Reading movie magazines may be my greatest vice — a habit as hard to kick as smoking. But how can I resist? They carry interesting interviews with actors, actresses and ...

Van der Garde: It was a great day - Planet F1

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:59:00 GMT
Giedo van der Garde enjoyed his return to the F1 paddock on Monday when he tested with Renault at the Barcelona circuit. The former Spyker test driver put in his first laps in a F1 ...

Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Reuters 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly ...

SNAPSHOT - Financial Crisis - 0950 GMT - CNBC

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:04:00 GMT
NEWS - Japan warns economy may contract in fiscal 2009/10 - Paulson: regaining of U.S. economic health to take time - Barclay's Bank slashing executive bonuses - Japan's biggest ...

Akbank says targets unchanged, staff levels up - Guardian Unlimited

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:00 GMT
* Follows media reports that it had cut 1,000 staff * Says current employee total up 12.3 percent on last year * Reiterates 2008 loan growth around 31 percent * Stock down 3.5 ...

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Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


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

Mark Twain


Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Stephen


Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Isaac Asimov


No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .

Yvonne De Gaulle


The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

Aeschylus


The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address


...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

M. C. Escher


Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.

Robert Frost


There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Russell Wayne Baker


A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Swedish proverb


What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

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Gordon Murray Awarded 'Idea of the Year' - Newsblaze.com

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:55:00 GMT
MENLO PARK, Calif. andLondon, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Automotive icon Gordon Murray , who headed up the design of supercars such as the McLaren F1 and the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:08:00 GMT
"It's an interesting chess game right now. Sometimes Mother Nature puts us in check, and our job is to put her in checkmate." — Capt. Guy Melker of the Los Angeles County Fire ...

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Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:35:18 +0000
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Van der Garde: It was a great day - Planet F1

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:59:00 GMT
Giedo van der Garde enjoyed his return to the F1 paddock on Monday when he tested with Renault at the Barcelona circuit. The former Spyker test driver put in his first laps in a F1 ...

Ahmad Jamal - City Pages

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:15:00 GMT
Influential jazz piano icon Ahmad Jamal continues showing off his impeccable technique and exploring fresh facets of his inimitable style on his latest recording, It's Magic ...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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.

Jerry Coleman


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

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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India FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 Mths Commercial Paper Benchmark 13.5000% - Reuters India

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:26:00 GMT
Nov 18 Tuesday (Reuters) - The FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 mths Commercial Paper Benchmark is 13.5000% compared with 13.4875% on Monday 17 Nov TENORS BENCHMARK ----- ----- 1 Month 11 ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Oil fell back towards $54 a barrel on Tuesday, setting a new near 22-month low as the gloomy outlook for the world economy helped extinguish a brief ...

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Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:35:18 +0000
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Boxing: Team Manny Pacquiao disses Oscar De La Hoya: And its Funny! - Doghouseboxing.com

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:28:00 GMT
Things just keep heating up as December 6th, the fight date for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao quickly approaches. The hype leading up to the fight has been amazing, and both ...

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


Know thyself.

James Branch Cabell


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

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

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.

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.

William Penn


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

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Sophocles


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

Edward R. Murrow


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

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.

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Canadian dollar closed at 81.75 cents US, up 0.15 of a cent - Canada East

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:25:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed 0.15 of a cent higher to 81.75 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.32 cents Canadian, down 0.23 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C ...

Son's snake bite serves as lesson and reminder - St. Petersburg Times

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:19:00 GMT
Our son Jacob was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. Given that we live in the midst of the Brooker Creek Preserve, surrounded by beauty and wildlife, this could have happened just ...

Lisa Evelyn Designs + Prints Announces Launch of New Website - PR.com

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:48:00 GMT
Seguin, TX, November 18, 2008 --( PR.com )-- Top quality and budget friendly printing and design is the mission, and easy to understand terms and customer service is their ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Oil fell back towards $54 a barrel on Tuesday, setting a new near 22-month low as the gloomy outlook for the world economy helped extinguish a brief ...

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Kelly Marshall


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

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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!

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


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

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.

William James


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

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Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Reuters 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly ...

Boxing: Team Manny Pacquiao disses Oscar De La Hoya: And its Funny! - Doghouseboxing.com

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:28:00 GMT
Things just keep heating up as December 6th, the fight date for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao quickly approaches. The hype leading up to the fight has been amazing, and both ...

Son's snake bite serves as lesson and reminder - St. Petersburg Times

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:19:00 GMT
Our son Jacob was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. Given that we live in the midst of the Brooker Creek Preserve, surrounded by beauty and wildlife, this could have happened just ...

Reading Films - Egypt Today

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:19:00 GMT
Reading movie magazines may be my greatest vice — a habit as hard to kick as smoking. But how can I resist? They carry interesting interviews with actors, actresses and ...

SNAPSHOT - Financial Crisis - 0950 GMT - CNBC

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:04:00 GMT
NEWS - Japan warns economy may contract in fiscal 2009/10 - Paulson: regaining of U.S. economic health to take time - Barclay's Bank slashing executive bonuses - Japan's biggest ...

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Erma Bombeck


We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind"


One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

Jess Lair


Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.

Orson Welles


I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

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Oshiomhole vows to make Edo leaders in Sports - Vanguard

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:27:00 GMT
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said weekend in Benin that the Bendel Insurance Football Club would be repositioned and adequately funded to enable it return to its ...

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Shane Leslie


The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

Robert Martin Fuoss


It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.

Saint Jerome


The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter


To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

William Saroyan


Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Enoch Powell


History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Hermann Hesse


Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

John Kenneth Galbraith


Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Shimon Peres


It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting-their geographical situation has been equally problematic.

Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu


Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Biblical Proverb


Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance.

Assyrian Proverb


There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.

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Canadian dollar closed at 81.75 cents US, up 0.15 of a cent - Canada East

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:25:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed 0.15 of a cent higher to 81.75 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.32 cents Canadian, down 0.23 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C ...

Boxing: Team Manny Pacquiao disses Oscar De La Hoya: And its Funny! - Doghouseboxing.com

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:52:00 GMT
Things just keep heating up as December 6th, the fight date for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao quickly approaches. The hype leading up to the fight has been amazing, and both ...

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Will Rogers


On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Steven Wright


I have the worlds largest seashell collection. You may have seen it, I keep it spread out on beaches all over the world.

Sophocles


Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Hamilton Mabie


Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against not with the wind.

John Kerry, speech in 2004


American can do better, and help is on the way.

Robert Browning


My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Anon.


Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can.

Horace, Satires


We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Sacha Guitry


When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

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Boxing: Team Manny Pacquiao disses Oscar De La Hoya: And its Funny! - Doghouseboxing.com

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:16:00 GMT
Things just keep heating up as December 6th, the fight date for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao quickly approaches. The hype leading up to the fight has been amazing, and both ...

Son's snake bite serves as lesson and reminder - St. Petersburg Times

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:19:00 GMT
Our son Jacob was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. Given that we live in the midst of the Brooker Creek Preserve, surrounded by beauty and wildlife, this could have happened just ...

When the Fines for Being Uninsured Cost Less Than Being Insured, What ... - EIN News

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:38:00 GMT
PETERHEAD, Scotland, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Rising numbers of uninsured drivers in the UK are causing concern. The Motor Insurer's Bureau places the current number at 1.5 ...

Canadian dollar opens at 81.03 cents US, down 0.57 of a cent - Canada East

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:57:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 81.03 cents US this morning, down 0.57 of a cent from Friday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at C$1.2341 cents, up 0.86 of a cent. Pound ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:08:00 GMT
"It's an interesting chess game right now. Sometimes Mother Nature puts us in check, and our job is to put her in checkmate." — Capt. Guy Melker of the Los Angeles County Fire ...

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