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Office Space


Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.

Douglas Noel Adams


Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.

Mark Twain, quoted in Mark Twain and I, Opie Read, 1940


Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Publilius Syrus


While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

John and Brand, Josh Falsey


You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law.

George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1


We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Benjamin Franklin


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Helen Gurley Brown


Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Unknown


Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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MOBILE STOCKS ALERTS - Hartford Courant

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:54:00 GMT
The Hartford Courant and 4INFO have combined to bring you stock and fund quotes on your cell phone. Simply enter a ticker below and you will receive a text message with a market ...

Africa Daily Press Briefing - Scoop

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:00 GMT
MR. MCCORMACK: I think DOD probably has a better handle on that. I’ve seen a lot of quotations from people related to the Fifth Fleet. They’re monitoring the situation very ...

Benelux stocks - Factors to watch on Nov 24 - Forbes

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:22:00 GMT
AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The following Benelux stocks may be affected by newspaper reports and other factors on Monday: Dutch brokerage signs letter of intent to buy ...

TEXAS READS: Scrapbooking Christmas Firsts - Beaumont Enterprise

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:39:00 GMT
Just in time for Christmas, 15 women writers have pieced together a Christmas quilt of ideas, thoughts, stories and traditions about the season. A Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts ...

LTE Innovations to Purchase Sunrise Telecom Protocol Product Group - MSN MoneyCentral

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:58:00 GMT
SAN JOSE, Calif. , Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sunrise Telecom(R) Incorporated (Pink Sheets: SRTI), a leader in test and measurement solutions for telecom, wireless and cable ...

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Jean-Paul Sartre


One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

Old School


Frank Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you're supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don't feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were out at the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a waitress taking an order, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably basic white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think well maybe they're silk panties, maybe it's a thong. Maybe it's something really cool that I don't even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling... what what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not

Joseph Addison


What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Henry Ward Beecher


Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Napoleon Hill


The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Joseph Conrad


For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Fran Lebowitz


Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Persian Proverb


Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Louis A. Allen


The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:23:00 GMT
"If you design everything around one person or one family or a couple of people, it's not going to work forever." — Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, suggesting that Libya plans to move ...

Microsoft moves to quash 'Vista Capable' case - Computerworld Australia

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:22:00 GMT
Microsoft asked a federal judge Thursday to end the class-action lawsuit that has been the source of a treasure trove of embarrassing insider e-mails that have showed the company ...

Top 5 holiday gifts for martini lovers - San Francisco Examiner

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:35:00 GMT
If you have someone in your life that loves a good martini, check out this list for gift ideas. $0-$10: The Little Black Book of Martinis by Nannette Stone is the perfect gift for ...

Gordon Ramsay embroiled in affair claims - New Zealand Herald

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:21:00 GMT
Gordon Ramsay has been accused of cheating on his wife by a British tabloid. Photo / Supplied Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is reportedly considering suing a British tabloid over ...

TEXAS READS: Scrapbooking Christmas Firsts - Beaumont Enterprise

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:39:00 GMT
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Steven Wright


If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know

William Faulkner


Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

Author Unknown


Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Voltaire


God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Joan Rivers


I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ``Get the hell off my property.'

Agnes Repplier


It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Miguel de Cervantes


I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

H. L. Mencken


I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Donald R. Gannon


Where facts are few, experts are many.

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Telling truth: Exhibit headed for Geneva - Beacon News

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:58:00 GMT
GENEVA -- A major traveling exhibition will grace the Geneva History Center when "Americans Who Tell the Truth" comes to town in January. The display, an examination of American ...

Diary - Hong Kong - to November 28 - Forbes

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:27:00 GMT
results. Board meeting at 0900 (0100). - UDL Holdings Ltd final results. - Vitasoy International Holdings Ltd H1 results. Corporation Ltd EGM in China. - 1000 (0200) Bossini ...

Brad Frank - Bleacherreport.com

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:52:00 GMT
Brad does not have any lineup writers. Hey, thanks for the edit on my UNC's Top 10 games article. The dashes drive me crazy -- I don't know how to make them be one thick dash "per ...

CD review: Chinese Democracy - Guns N' Roses - Stuff

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:10:00 GMT
If you're still hanging in there, Guns N' Roses fans, it's time to sit down, put your feet up and relax. After the last 15 years, you deserve it. Boy, do you what. Because it's ...

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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound


Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Miguel de Cervantes


It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

Oscar Levant


Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Robert A. Heinlein


How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Helena Rubinstein


I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

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.

Japanese Proverb


Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.

Jesus


Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.

Paulette Bates Alden


Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:49:00 GMT
Close on the heels of an alleged gangrape of a minor in the town two months ago, another shocking incident of an alleged rape of a 39-year-old patient in the Command Hospital ...

Brad Frank - Bleacherreport.com

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:52:00 GMT
Brad does not have any lineup writers. Hey, thanks for the edit on my UNC's Top 10 games article. The dashes drive me crazy -- I don't know how to make them be one thick dash "per ...

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Aristotle


Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

Cato the Elder


Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Albert Einstein


As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Sallust


The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Rita Rudner


I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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Tributes flow for Helen Clark on The Big Idea - Scoop

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:59:00 GMT
Tributes for Helen Clark, former Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, have flowed into The Big Idea , from arts leaders and the creative community including ...

Brad Frank - Bleacherreport.com

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:52:00 GMT
Brad does not have any lineup writers. Hey, thanks for the edit on my UNC's Top 10 games article. The dashes drive me crazy -- I don't know how to make them be one thick dash "per ...

(updates with quotes from "Twilight" director in paragraphs 10-11 ... - Reuters

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:55:00 GMT
LOS ANGELES, Nov 23 (Reuters) - "Twilight," the vampire romance that has spurred feverish anticipation among young female moviegoers, took a bigger-than-expected $70.55 million ...

TEXAS READS: Scrapbooking Christmas Firsts - Beaumont Enterprise

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:39:00 GMT
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CD review: Chinese Democracy - Guns N' Roses - Stuff

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:01:00 GMT
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John Milton


When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

Tallulah Bankhead


It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Victor Hugo


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

George Gurdjieff


Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

G.K. Chesterton


The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Gerald Barzan


Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.

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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:56:00 GMT
A state-run newspaper in Zimbabwe says a humanitarian mission by Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and a South African human rights advocate was blocked because the three failed to consult ...

Book review: 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists - Bloggernews.net

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:17:00 GMT
McIver is a brave man to attempt such a task and this book will surely inspire massive arguments amongst the metal hordes, during their next libations, over his choices and order ...

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CD review: Chinese Democracy - Guns N' Roses - Stuff

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:03:00 GMT
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Kelly Marshall


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

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.

Victor Hugo


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

Niels Henrik David Bohr


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

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Africa Daily Press Briefing - Scoop

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:00 GMT
MR. MCCORMACK: I think DOD probably has a better handle on that. I’ve seen a lot of quotations from people related to the Fifth Fleet. They’re monitoring the situation very ...

The new mental disorders? - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:56:00 GMT
Sex addiction. Internet addiction. Compulsive buying disorder. All of these and more could become officially recognized mental disorders in the next few years. The American ...

SCENARIOS-What's in store for politically riven Thailand? - Forbes

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:46:00 GMT
BANGKOK, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied in central Bangkok on Sunday, the start of what they call the 'final battle' in a five-month street ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:23:00 GMT
"If you design everything around one person or one family or a couple of people, it's not going to work forever." — Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, suggesting that Libya plans to move ...

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