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Monday, January 12, 2009

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William Blackstone


It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Author Unknown


If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

Ernest Hemingway


When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003


You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840


I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Charles Caleb Colton


Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Nathaniel Borenstein


The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

Josh Billings


It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Exodus 2320 Bible


See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way...

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Our Daily Bleg: Got Any Legal Quotes That Top Lamenting the Demise of ... - New York Times Blogs

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:51:00 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 with quotations — send it along here . Last week’s quotation bleg ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:26:00 GMT
_____AUSTRALIAN CREDIT/FOREX (0100 GMT) SNAPSHOT_____ FOREIGN EXCHANGE (against previous Sydney close) 0.6745/50 (0.6907/10) 1.1969/94 (1.1798/1811) 60.40/43 (62.30/33) 89.51/53 (90.14/17) 0.5059/71(0.5162/66) 1.3309/12 (1.3383/88) DEBT ...

State road contractor's indictment revised - Lexington Herald-Leader

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:35:00 GMT
FRANKFORT — A federal judge ruled Thursday that portions of an indictment against a top state road contractor and two others will be redacted and not shown to a jury. Defense lawyers for Leonard Lawson, former Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert ...

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Stella Benson


Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Robert Jackson


The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Anonymous


If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

Ben Sweetland


Success is a journey, not a destination.

Leonardo DaVinci


Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.

Horace, Epistles


Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Franklin P. Jones


It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


You know what would make a good story Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.

Pam Brown


A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Martin Luther King Jr.


One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Carl Schurz


Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Thomas Carlyle


Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

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Böller-Opfer: "Es ist wie im Krieg" - Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:26:00 GMT
Kassel. Der Jahreswechsel ist für Hans-Peter Jung stets mit Angst und Ärger verbunden. Das hat mit dem gewaltigen Feuerwerk zu tun, das seine Nachbarn vom China-Restaurant Jade ...

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George Dorsey


Play is the beginning of knowledge.

John Updike


A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Bhagavad Gita


There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns.

Carl Sagan


If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits

George Meredith


There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.

Jawaharlal Nehru


The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Assyrian Proverb


The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

Clint Eastwood, Jr.


If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

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RIM previews Bluetooth-enabled Blackberry accessory for your car - ITBusiness.ca

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:47:00 GMT
I just returned from a tour of Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry booth at CES 2009, and though there were lots of noteworthy devices, applications and services on display-stay tuned to the Mobile WorkHorse blog for more details--one product in ...

Satyam Computer: Best avoided - Business Standard

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:44:00 GMT
Satyam Computer Services’ tainted promoter, B Ramalinga Raju, unleashed on India last week, a form of financial terrorism, which can probably be compared to 26/11 in terms of its magnum and far-reaching effect. If the facts mentioned in his letter ...

Canadian dollar is trading at 83.06 cents US, down 0.92 of a cent at ... - Canada East

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:22:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 83.06 cents US, down 0.92 of a cent on Monday. The U.S. dollar was trading at C$1.2040, up 1.32 cents. Pound sterling was at C$1.7870, down 2.04 cents and US$1.4840, down 3.38 cents. The euro was at C$1.6080 ...

Notable quotations from the Northwest flooding - Bellingham Herald

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:58:00 GMT
"Another inch of water and we could have had a different story. We dodged a bullet." Don Wagner, a regional administrator for the Washington state Transportation Department, on a dike on the Chehalis River that was about an inch away from being ...

Ledger Wins Globe For Joker Role - Post Chronicle

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:12:00 GMT
Late Australian actor Heath Ledger won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a film in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sunday night. Ledger, who died last January at age 28 from an accidental prescription drug overdose, earned the Globe for his ...

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Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments"


There is no slavery but ignorance.

Dan Quayle, 8/18/92


Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

Spanish Proverb


The lazy man always does twice the work.
(El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)

William Davis


The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.

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Heath Ledger, 'Slumdog Millionaire' win Golden Globes - Gainesville Sun

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:43:00 GMT
With four awards Sunday including best drama, "Slumdog Millionaire" emerged as the potential film to beat at the Academy Awards, an unexpected position for a movie with a cast of unknowns and a story set among orphans and criminals on the streets of ...

Thread of pride runs through quilts for Obama - Cincinnati.com

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:17:00 GMT
WEST CHESTER TWP. - The election of Barack Obama changed the fabric of the nation for many people. What better way to reflect that moment in history than through an entire show of quilts? So for an intense three weeks, starting just after ...

Just Facts Publishes Fact-Based Analysis of the Social Security ... - ChristianNewsWire

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:12:00 GMT
Just Facts has published a compendium of objective and thoroughly documented facts surrounding the Social Security program. This original research includes scores of facts concerning one of the largest government programs in the world. Contact: James ...

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Mark Twain


A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

Rudyard Kipling


The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Friedrich Nietzsche


At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

William Shakespeare


The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.

Robin Green


You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass

Richard Buckminster Fuller


When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Erma Bombeck, on her tombstone


I told you I was sick.

Boileau


The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions


The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Cicero


He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

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