Latest Famous Quotations

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Robert Pirsig


Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

Sophocles


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Lao Tzu


It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

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.

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


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

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!

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

James Branch Cabell


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

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Quotes on Inauguration Day - Nashville Tennessean

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:05:00 GMT
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Notable Quotes - Namibian

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:42:00 GMT
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Stocks tumble on new bank worries - Sun-Journal

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:45:00 GMT
NEW YORK (AP) - The dawn of the Obama presidency could not shake the stock market from its dejection over the rapidly deteriorating state of the banking industry. Financial stocks, many of them falling by double digit percentages, led a huge drop on ...

WRAPUP 3-U.S. bank shares sink as investors fear more losses - CNN Money

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:51:00 GMT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. bank shares sank Tuesday, with Citigroup Inc and Bank of America Corp hitting their lowest levels since the early 1990s as investors, seeing no quick end to losses from toxic assets, worried that many banks are running short ...

German Econ Min:Bundesbank Sees 4Q GDP Down Around 1.75% QQ - Wall Street Journal

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:42:00 GMT
BERLIN (Dow Jones)--Bundesbank President Axel Weber said Wednesday that the German government's 2009 projections are realistic and that the bank estimates Germany's real GDP to have contracted by around 1.75% in ... New! To sign up for Keyword or ...

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