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A Bartlett Giamatti


A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Zadok Rabinwitz


A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Lawrence Peter Berra


The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

Erma Bombeck


Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.

John Wooden


Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.

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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:29:00 GMT
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Mumbai shootings: Reaction in quotes - BBC South-Asia

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:22:00 GMT
President Bush offers his condolences to the Indian people and the families of the innocent civilians killed and injured in the attacks in Mumbai, India. The United States condemns ...

Improving Email Communications - Redorbit.com

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:03:00 GMT
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Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 123.02 cents Canadian, up 0.52 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C ...

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Woodrow Wilson


When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Cynthia Heimel


Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

Juvenal


Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Luther


Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


When you go for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

David Letterman


New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ezra Bowen


If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.

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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:46:00 GMT
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Oklahoma Agriculture - Tulsa World

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:20:00 GMT
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Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 123.02 cents Canadian, up 0.52 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C ...

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Christopher Fry


Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Harold Taylor


Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Rabbi Harold Kushner


I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

Lawrence Peter Berra


You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Benoit Mandelbrot


Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Greek Proverb


To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:46:00 GMT
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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:08:00 GMT
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Max Lerner


America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner.

Weekend Update


Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs.

Author Unknown


You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

Harry S Truman


When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Nelson Mandela


Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Bertolt Brecht


War is like love it always finds a way.

Washington Irving


Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Juvenal, Satires


The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!

Back to the Future


Dr. Emmett Brown Roads Where we're going we don't need roads.

Anthony Lake


I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'

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Miss Gayborhood can’t speak - Dallas Voice

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:02:00 GMT
Kat Ewing refrains from defending Oak Lawn’s female impersonators — now that the Miss Texas Organization has issued a ‘no drag queens allowed’ ruling LOVE THE HAIR... Ewing ...

NZ now a joke in Europe, says carbon trader - Scoop

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:46:00 GMT
New Zealand now a joke in Europe, says carbon trader A leading New Zealand carbon trader says international markets can no longer take New Zealand seriously, carbon trading has ...

Imminent Victorians - Time

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:27:00 GMT
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Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:21:00 GMT
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Carl von Clausewitz


To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel


An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976


We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Fred Allen


Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

Jane Austen, Emma


Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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Seven on trial over dodgy deals - Gulf Times

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:30:00 GMT
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier


The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . .

1 Peter 47-8 Bible


The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Mark Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907


I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon


Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

Kabbalah


Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

Shirley MacLaine


Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1


Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare


I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics", 1905


There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Unknown


A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

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Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 81.29 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 123.02 cents Canadian, up 0.52 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C ...

Mumbai shootings: Reaction in quotes - BBC South-Asia

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:22:00 GMT
President Bush offers his condolences to the Indian people and the families of the innocent civilians killed and injured in the attacks in Mumbai, India. The United States condemns ...

CHRIS ARREOLA OPEN WORKOUT QUOTES - Fighthype.com

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:12:00 GMT
On Saturday, November 29, undefeated Cristobal "The Nightmare" Arreola will defend his WBC Continental Americas title against Travis "Freight Train" Walker on the first-ever ...

Gazprom sends draft contract on formula-based gas supplies as of 2011 ... - KPNews.com

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:11:00 GMT
The Russian gas monopoly, the Gazprom company, has sent the draft contract on the formula-based gas supplies as of 2011 to the Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company, first ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:29:00 GMT
"They just fired randomly at people and then ran away. In seconds, people fell to the ground." — Nasim Inam, a witness to one of 10 attacks in Mumbai where teams of gunman killed ...

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Don DeLillo, White Noise


That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.

Pliny the Elder


Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Elizabeth Taylor


Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Rebecca West


Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Gypsy Smith


You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Adam Richardson


All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Bob Hope


I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

Ed Meese


You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:27:00 GMT
"The incident has damaged Thailand's reputation and its economy beyond repair.'' Suvarnabhumi Airport director Serirat Prasutanont in Bangkok after protesters shut down the airport ...

Gazprom sends draft contract on formula-based gas supplies as of 2011 ... - KPNews.com

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:11:00 GMT
The Russian gas monopoly, the Gazprom company, has sent the draft contract on the formula-based gas supplies as of 2011 to the Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company, first ...

Improving Email Communications - Redorbit.com

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:03:00 GMT
In a new article in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian (both of the University of Chicago) study how we use emoticons ...