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Saturday, November 29, 2008

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Sir Walter Raleigh


Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Louis Pasteur


Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

J. Gustav White


One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

Emperor Sigismund


I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.


Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.

James Goldsmith


Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Norman Mailer


One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

Benjamin McLane Spock


What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

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EU charges Big Pharma manipulated market - New London Day

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:26:00 GMT
Major pharmaceutical companies, including New York-based Pfizer Inc., came under attack Friday from the European Union, which accused them of anti-competitive practices to keep ...

Hundreds of league fans welcome Kiwis home - radionz

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:10:00 GMT
The Rugby League World Cup has arrived in New Zealand for the first time on Sunday to an overwhelming welcome. The Kiwis beat the Kangaroos 34 - 20 in the World Cup final in ...

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

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:04:00 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 ...

"So What, Now What!?" - OpEdNews.com

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:44:00 GMT
Yes, of course, it's the economy , stupic!All around us we hear: "Bail me out, bail me out, BAIL ME OUT!" But, tell me please, although my mortgage creditor, Citi-group, seem to be ...

Title: Hostages was not in the terror plan. - Haaretz.com

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:39:00 GMT
What a rediculous response from the analyst. Look at the quotes `brave` commandoes. What does this writer mean?. If you follow up and tie all the loose ends, it becomes clear the ...

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Walter Lippmann


People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Lao Tzu


The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery


You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

Mark Twain


We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

Unknown


All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


While there's life, there's hope.

W. C. Fields


A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Unknown


There are people who make things happen,
those who watch what happens,
and those who wonder what happened.

Malcolm X


Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

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Our Daily Bleg: Can You Translate From Spanish? - New York Times Blogs

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:28:00 GMT
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro , editor of The Yale Book of Quotations , is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have anything to do ...

Wales v Aus Wales quotes Eng v NZ Eng quotes Photos As it happened - BBC Sport

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:57:00 GMT
"There were times where we thought we had their guys under pressure but we didn't make anything of it. "Maybe our guys have got to learn that Test rugby is about pressure. When you ...

Stirling Mortlock and Jamie Roberts clashed in the second minute in ... - BBC Sport

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:57:00 GMT
Mortlock was immediately replaced but Roberts initially played on and was crucial in the build-up to Shane Williams' opening Wales try. Wales fear Roberts will out for six weeks ...

Wales v Aus Wales quotes Eng v NZ Eng quotes Photos As it happened - BBC Sport

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:57:00 GMT
"There were times where we thought we had their guys under pressure but we didn't make anything of it. "Maybe our guys have got to learn that Test rugby is about pressure. When you ...

The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood - Indolink

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:18:00 GMT
From the very title of this book evokes a heart-rending dilemma in my mind: the term ‘Diaspora’ brings to mind the Jewish plight whereby the community dispersed throughout the ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Francis Bacon


If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Louis Pasteur


Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Groucho Marx


I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan


When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1775


Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Bias


The wise man carries his possessions within him.

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Report: Plaxico Burress Accidentally Shoots Self in Leg - 1010Wins

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:14:00 GMT
NEW YORK (1010 WINS/ESPN) -- New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress suffered an accidental gunshot wound Friday night in a club, according to a report on ESPN.com. Details ...

Rubin says not to blame for Citi's troubles: report - CNBC

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:51:00 GMT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Treasury secretary Robert Rubin said the near-collapse of Citigroup Inc , where he is a senior counselor, was due to the buckling financial ...

Meet the cast of City Homicide - ONE News

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:22:00 GMT
A Homicide detective is shot on a routine house call. He's dying, but no one even knows he's there. Meanwhile, Jennifer suspects Waverley of setting her up on a tricky ethical case ...

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R. D. Lang


Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Alfred A. Montapert


The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

Russian Proverb


Gossip needs no carriage.

Daniel Defoe


Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Jeff Melvoin


As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

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The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood - Indolink

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:18:00 GMT
From the very title of this book evokes a heart-rending dilemma in my mind: the term ‘Diaspora’ brings to mind the Jewish plight whereby the community dispersed throughout the ...

Our Daily Bleg: Can You Translate From Spanish? - New York Times Blogs

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:28:00 GMT
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro , editor of The Yale Book of Quotations , is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have anything to do ...

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Philip Sheridan


If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Samuel Johnson


The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Alexander Pope


Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Helen Keller


No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Victor Hugo


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Lyndon B. Johnson


I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Eric Butterworth


Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Indira Gandhi


You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.

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Author traces Va. history in verse - Chincoteague Beacon

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:08:00 GMT
ACCOMAC -- A British author who now calls Virginia home will appear at two area libraries Tuesday to read from his new history of the state, written in verse. Tim Lewis, 54, spent ...

Quick thoughts on Nebraska-Colorado: - Bleacherreport.com

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:45:00 GMT
1) The Nebraska-Colorado game is always weird. Strange plays, strange scores, and often, strange outcomes and this year was no exception. 2) Roy Helu Jr . reminds me of ...

Quips & Quotes - Salem News

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:02:00 GMT
" I always said if I had my own restaurant I was going to do it." Debby Marticio on what prompted her to offer free turkey dinners at her Danvers restaurant, Ma Duke's, Thursday ...

Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:31:00 GMT
"There is a limit a city can take. This is a very, very different kind of fear. It will be some time before things get back to normal.'' -- Ayesha Dar, a 33-year-old homemaker, in ...

Reminding nurses of what inspires their work - Citizen

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:10:00 GMT
Sue Heacock grew up in Tilton but left when she was 18 and never came back. She now lives in Florida and recently published her first book, Inspiring the Inspirational: Words of ...

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Sophocles


Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Joseph Wood Krutch


Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Henry Taylor


He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The dark today leads into light tomorrow;
There is no endless joy,
...and yet no endless sorrow.

Mark Twain


The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Greek Proverb


Where there is a sea there are pirates.

Russell P. Askue


If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.

Richard Byrd


Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

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E.ON sees lower German retail gas prices -paper - Forbes

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:50:00 GMT
FRANKFURT, Nov 29 (Reuters) - E.ON plans to cut gas prices for German retail consumers beyond the reductions it has already announced, if oil prices remain at current levels, a top ...

Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:31:00 GMT
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Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:13:00 GMT
THE CONTRACTOR General has recommended that criminal charges be laid against the acting managing director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC, Bindley Sangster. Greg ...