Great Famous Quotations

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

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Danish proverb


Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

John Hay


All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Anon.


Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.

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Our opinion: Cabinet of rivals will help Obama - State Journal-Register

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:24:00 GMT
PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama’s national security team shows a person who is tolerant of strong personalities and has kept his promise to appoint a bipartisan team of rivals ...

Media helped deepen crisis, says CBI chief - Financial Times

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:29:00 GMT
Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI employers’ body, on Tuesday launched an attack on the press watchdog for failing to crack down on reporting that had served to deepen ...

Top-20 selling vehicles in U.S. through November - Forbes

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:02:00 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 ...

Check Services - Commodity Online

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:46:00 GMT
NEW DELHI: Edible oil prices in the national capital remained unchanged on Monday on adequate stocks against lower demand. However, castor oil rose sharply by Rs 200 per quintal on ...

Thorns, 1st Belizean board game, targets youth for sexuality, HIV/AIDS ... - Amandala

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:54:00 GMT
Even despite the publicity blitz targeted at young people through television and radio adverts and colorful posters, sexuality and HIV/AIDS are still taboo topics for some parents ...

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E.B. White


I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

W. J. Cameron


Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

George Smith Patton, Jr.


Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.

Isaac Newton


I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

William Shakespeare


His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN

Author Unknown


Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.

Polish Proverb


Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

George Orwell, 1984


If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

Fridjof Nansen


If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

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Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Proust Junkies’ Delight ... - New York Observer

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:04:00 GMT
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X Factor meets classical music as YouTube opens orchestra auditions - Guardian Unlimited

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:47:00 GMT
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:08:00 GMT
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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.

James Branch Cabell


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

Jerry Coleman


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

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.

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.

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Quotes from the Media Summit - Reuters

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:08:00 GMT
"I think anybody who tells you that they know what 2009 is going to look like, is probably telling you a story." "You have probably heard every company who has spoken over the last ...

Post details: Huskers-Clemson: What do you think of that? - Lincoln Journal Star

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:37:00 GMT
There have been reports from anonymous sources all day, but here's one from the Florida Times-Union with quotes from Gator Bowl Association President Rick Catlett. It's Nebraska ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:13:00 GMT
"I saw that figure this morning, and I thought: Oh, no. Here we go again." — Peter Wright, an associate at Burrell Stockbroking, as he watched Australian shares fall Tuesday ...

Canadian dollar closed at 79.94 cents US, down 0.37 of a cent - Canada East

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:36:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 79.94 cents US, down 0.37 of a cent on Tuesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 125.10 cents Canadian, up 0.59 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C$1 ...

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Sterne


How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

Robert Southey


It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Vince Lombardi


If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Rainer Maria Rilke


For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Aristotle


To love someone is to identify with them.

Henry Louis Mencken


The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Saskya Pandita


Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame,
But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers
Are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan


Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

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(Adds quotes, background) - Reuters

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:53:00 GMT
PRAGUE, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Profit growth for power group CEZ (CEZPsp.PR: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is slower due to slipping economic growth, but will not come to a ...

Our opinion: Cabinet of rivals will help Obama - State Journal-Register

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:24:00 GMT
PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama’s national security team shows a person who is tolerant of strong personalities and has kept his promise to appoint a bipartisan team of rivals ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:07:00 GMT
LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Oil pared losses on Tuesday after an earlier fall to a new 3-1/2-year low below $48 a barrel, weighed down by heavy losses in global stock markets after ...