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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison


I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Henri Cartier-Bresson


In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.

Elaine Agather


Attitude is more important than reality.

French Proverb


Anger is a bad counselor.

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Asia Crude-India ONGC sells Feb Sokol at record low - Reuters India

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:16:00 GMT
NEW DELHI, Dec 8 (Reuters) - India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has sold via a tender a cargo of February-loading Sokol crude at a record-low premium of about $3.25 a barrel ...

The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - Time

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:01:00 GMT
Albums Animal Stories Awkward Moments Best Biz Deals Best Performances Breakups Buzzwords Campaign Gaffes Campaign Video Moments Children's Books Crime Stories Editorial Cartoons ...

More JUTC drama - Jamaica Observer

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:11:00 GMT
THE Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) board has uncovered at least two other contracts that, it said, the state-run bus company's late executive chairman, Douglas Chambers ...

Fireman Joe or Actor Joe? Confused.com Asks Which Job Gets I'm a ... - Melodika.net

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:57:00 GMT
Cheeky cockney Joe Swash was well on the way to becoming a fireman before landing the role of Mickey Miller in Eastenders, but as job title is one of the key deciders for how much ...

Last week's letters and blog pingbacks in full - Guardian Unlimited

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:06:00 GMT
Thanks to Wendy M. Grossmann for the tips and "nerve calming" as a result of her article. From a Swiss small business which has received just such a threatening, extortiant letter ...

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Richard M. Nixon


Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Publilius Syrus


To-day is the pupil of yesterday.

C. S. Lewis


No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Henry Ford


There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)


Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

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Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:37:00 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 ...

The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - Time

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:01:00 GMT
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US Reassesses Lashkar's Role, Potential After Mumbai - Report - Beurs.nl

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:05:00 GMT
WASHINGTON (AFP)--U.S. counterterrorism and military officials are reassessing their view of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani-based militant group, and believe it to be more capable ...

The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - Time

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:01:00 GMT
Albums Animal Stories Awkward Moments Best Biz Deals Best Performances Breakups Buzzwords Campaign Gaffes Campaign Video Moments Children's Books Crime Stories Editorial Cartoons ...

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Agesilaus the Second


Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Douglas Noel Adams


When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

F Scott


Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Anonymous


It is light grief that can take counsel.

Anatole France


The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

Phaedrus


There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Ninon de Lenclos


The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Albert Einstein


The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

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The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - Time

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:01:00 GMT
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US Reassesses Lashkar's Role, Potential After Mumbai - Report - Beurs.nl

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:05:00 GMT
WASHINGTON (AFP)--U.S. counterterrorism and military officials are reassessing their view of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani-based militant group, and believe it to be more capable ...

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Robert A. Baker


More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Christopher Marlowe


Who ever loved that loved not at first sight

Confucius


To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Irv Kupcinet


What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

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Swinton in Equity branch bid? - Insurancetimes.co.uk

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:47:00 GMT
Britain’s largest high street insurance broker Swinton is to buy the branch network of Equity Insurance, put up for sale as part of a series of disposals by Insurance Australia ...

Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:37:00 GMT
"We've got to provide a blood infusion to the patient right now to make sure that the patient is stabilized. And that means that we can't worry short term about the deficit. We've ...

Asia Crude-India ONGC sells Feb Sokol at record low - Reuters India

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:16:00 GMT
NEW DELHI, Dec 8 (Reuters) - India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has sold via a tender a cargo of February-loading Sokol crude at a record-low premium of about $3.25 a barrel ...

Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:37:00 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 ...

Asia Crude-India ONGC sells Feb Sokol at record low - Reuters India

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:16:00 GMT
NEW DELHI, Dec 8 (Reuters) - India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has sold via a tender a cargo of February-loading Sokol crude at a record-low premium of about $3.25 a barrel ...

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Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941


Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

George Eliot


The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Richard Adams


The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

H. L. Mencken


The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Richard Jordan


Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God.

Cullen Hightower


The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Isaac Asimov


Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

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Here’s what to get the runner in your life - Brazoria Facts

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:46:00 GMT
My Friday 6-miler around the Old River levee was a tough run against an 18 mph wind and a wind-chill factor of 37 degrees. After my prayers and meditations at about the third mile ...

HK dollar in a tight range, interbank rates fall - CNBC

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:09:00 GMT
HONG KONG, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The following is a snapshot of the Hong Kong foreign exchange and money markets in late trade on Monday. Close Morning Previous Close At 0842 GMT At ...

Economic development: Agenda sets economic priorities for Obama ... - Reno Gazette

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:05:00 GMT
"Strengthening local economic development strengthens the nation." "While states and communities are uniquely positioned to address economic development issues, they require ...

Last week's letters and blog pingbacks in full - Guardian Unlimited

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:06:00 GMT
Thanks to Wendy M. Grossmann for the tips and "nerve calming" as a result of her article. From a Swiss small business which has received just such a threatening, extortiant letter ...

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Kareem Abdul-Jabar


I try to do the right thing at the right time.They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909


You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

Brendan Behan


When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

H. Allen Smith


When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

Johann Kaspar Lavater


Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Chinese Proverb


Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

William Wordsworth


That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Quintilian


When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Harry Hershfield


New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

B. J. Gupta


Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

Francis Bacon


Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

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Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:37:00 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 ...

Almost Ready for the Doctoral Program Rankings - Inside Higher Ed

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:53:00 GMT
Even the harshest critics of U.S. News & World Report would have to give the magazine credit for one thing: There’s no doubt when the rankings of colleges will come out. They ...

Here’s what to get the runner in your life - Brazoria Facts

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:46:00 GMT
My Friday 6-miler around the Old River levee was a tough run against an 18 mph wind and a wind-chill factor of 37 degrees. After my prayers and meditations at about the third mile ...

Vintage O'Malley - lifting famous quotations - HometownAnnapolis.com

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:26:00 GMT
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