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Napolean Hill


The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Samuel Johnson


An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


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

Benjamin Disraeli


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

Unknown


He was a true friend, he stabbed me in the front.

Dean Gordon Brown


Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

John Milton


When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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Npower fined £1.8m over mis-selling - Guardian Unlimited

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:05:00 GMT
Npower is to be fined £1.8 million after it failed to take sufficient action to prevent mis-selling of contracts to customers. Energy regulator Ofgem found that npower breached ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:00:00 GMT
SYDNEY, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Gold slid $2 in modest trade on Tuesday, dragged lower by a 2 percent fall in oil prices, while activity was thinned by a Japanese holiday and a steady ...

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Theodore Roosevelt


When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty."

Casey Stengel


They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh


One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

German proverb


Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

Cicero


The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

Peter Drucker


So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

William Faulkner


Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Indian Proverb


Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.

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Canadian dollar closed at 82.03 cents US, up 0.26 of a cent - Canada East

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:19:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 82.03 cents US, up 0.26 of a cent on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.90 cents Canadian, down 0.40 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C$1 ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:14:00 GMT
Dec 22 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2100 GMT on Monday. (For Reuters columns on ...

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Quintilian


Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.


If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Thomas Jefferson


Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

P. G. Wodehouse


Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Aldous Huxley


The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Edward W. Howe


If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Wu Ting-Fang


Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Michael Horton


When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

Julie Cochrane


What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.

Moses Hadas


Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Logan Pearsall Smith


Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

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Npower fined £1.8m for mis-selling - This is Money

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:46:00 GMT
Ofgem found that npower breached conditions of its supply licence by failing to take adequate steps following complaints from customers about visits by the company's doorstep ...

Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:37:00 GMT
Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada representing the faction of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko in the parliamentary investigative commission for the work of the National Bank of Ukraine ...

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Ashley Montague


Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Dick Cavett


I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.

Mark Twain


"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Turkish Proverb


If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.

Jim Rohn


Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Mark Twain


Golf is a good walk spoiled.

H. Jackson Jr. Brown


Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

Thomas a Kempis


Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Sir Walter Besant


I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Plato, Symposium


But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

Dwight D. Eisenhower


We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

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Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:37:00 GMT
Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada representing the faction of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko in the parliamentary investigative commission for the work of the National Bank of Ukraine ...

Chuch Todd's Influence - Boston Phoenix

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:44:00 GMT
I agree with Dan that David Gregory's debut as Meet the Press host was inauspicious. Gregory did seem to go easy on Condi Rice. He also continued the Russert prediliction -- in ...

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Jerry Coleman


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

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!

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.

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.

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(Adds start of talks, Lukashenko, Medvedev quotes) - Reuters

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:08:00 GMT
MOSCOW, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Russia is bound to help Belarus stave off economic crisis because it is in its own interests to do so, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on ...

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