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Monday, November 24, 2008

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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.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


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

Thornton Wilder


Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Ronald Reagan


Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Tom Stoppard


I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

Anna Quindlen


A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"


Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

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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!

Benjamin Disraeli


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

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.

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

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:06:00 GMT
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Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:04:00 GMT
LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Oil eased below $50 a barrel on Monday, on scepticism that a further OPEC supply cut would be enough to prop up prices that have been pressured by ...

Turkish oil pipeline repaired after 3-day fire - WTOP Radio

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:31:00 GMT
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Great Famous Quotations

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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.

Sophocles


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

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.

Douglas Noel Adams


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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:21:00 GMT
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:58:00 GMT
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

James Branch Cabell


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

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

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Pentagon Stiffs Families of Dead and Wounded Vets - OpEdNews.com

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Liz Hurley stars in fur ad? - MSN UK News

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:25:00 GMT
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Kelly Marshall


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

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


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

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.

William Penn


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

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.

Jerry Coleman


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

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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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:11:00 GMT
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Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

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.

Germaine Greer


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

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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.

Robert Pirsig


Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Victor Hugo


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

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.

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Microsoft moves to quash 'Vista Capable' case - Australian PC World

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:54:00 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 ...

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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:25:00 GMT
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Microsoft seeks to end 'Vista Capable' class action - TechWorld

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:53:00 GMT
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