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Anne Marie Pierce


Only dreamers can teach us to soar.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Euripides


Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Alighieri Dante


Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Sainte-Beave


There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Helen Rowland


Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Andr Gide


One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Henry Clay


I had rather be right than be President.

Nora Ephron


If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.

Niccolo Machiavelli


There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Sen O'Faolin


It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it.

Vida D. Scudder


It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

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Politician urges government to nationalise RBS and Lloyds - EurActiv.com

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:44:00 GMT
LONDON (Reuters) - The chairman of the parliament's Treasury Committee urged the government on Wednesday to nationalise Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group as the global financial crisis deepens. John McFall, a prominent legislator in ...

Vietnam rice up nearly 5% on Manila prospects - ABS-CBN

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:18:00 GMT
HANOI - Export quotations of Vietnam's 25 percent broken rice rose between 3 and 4.9 percent this week before Vietnamese exporters start loading 500,000 tons for the Philippines from next month, traders said on Wednesday. "Food companies have ...

Woodbury Selectmen Approve - TriVallyCentral

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:05:00 GMT
WOODBURY - William Scanlan, AICP, was unanimously approved as the consultant charged with revising the town's Plan of Conservation and Development, at the Thursday, January 8, Board of Selectmen meeting. According to the meeting minutes, Mr. Scanlan ...

Prime minister's questions - live - Guardian Unlimited

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:42:00 GMT
10.42am: Gordon Brown and David Cameron like throwing quotations at each other at PMQs, but I suspect that one of the most interesting quotes we've had from a cabinet minister in recent days won't get used by Cameron this afternoon because it would ...

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Clare Booth Luce


Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Tennessee Williams


Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else...

Henry Fielding


Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

American Proverb


He that lives on hope will die fasting.

Indira Gandhi


My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

Thomas Jefferson


This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

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John Mortimer rests his case - Business Standard

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:28:00 GMT
Mortimer was a barrister, but also a playwright, scriptwriter, author, wine connoisseur, skilled gardener, notorious flirt, wit and bon vivant who famously (the adverb is unavoidable) started each day with a glass of champagne at 6 am. This was ...

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Quotations for Russian Eurobonds - Interfax Information Agency

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:21:00 GMT
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Notable Quotes - Namibian

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:42:00 GMT
THE children really want to be here and they really want to learn. – Principal of the Moses //Garoëb Project School in Katutura, Myra Griqua, where children are waiting in tents for school furniture to be delivered. I THINK it’s in the interest ...

Woodbury Selectmen Approve - TriVallyCentral

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:05:00 GMT
WOODBURY - William Scanlan, AICP, was unanimously approved as the consultant charged with revising the town's Plan of Conservation and Development, at the Thursday, January 8, Board of Selectmen meeting. According to the meeting minutes, Mr. Scanlan ...

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Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Victor Hugo


Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Coming to America


King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Michael Levine


Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Seneca


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Peter McWilliams


Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky


The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

John Milton


How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year

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Sean Scully - Guardian Unlimited

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:05:00 GMT
The power of Sean Scully's abstract art hits you like a blast of truth when you enter the gallery. It is rare to encounter contemporary paintings that exert such authority and convey such an exhilarating intelligence - but these are not contemporary ...

Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:42:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. Neither ...

Canadian dollar is trading at 79.37 cents US, down 0.33 cent at 11 a.m ... - Canada East

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:27:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 79.37 cents US, down 0.33 of a cent on Tuesday. The U.S. dollar was trading at C$1.26, up 0.53 of a cent. Pound sterling was at C$1.7608, down 8.28 cents and US$1.3965, down 0.49 of a cent. The euro was at C$1 ...

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Famous Quotations:

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
"President-elect Obama is just walking into a shipwreck. I think this man has more challenges in front of him than any since FDR." "I've been real emotional all morning thinking about my grandmother and the heroes whose shoulders we stand on. They'd ...

Notable Quotes - Namibian

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:42:00 GMT
THE children really want to be here and they really want to learn. – Principal of the Moses //Garoëb Project School in Katutura, Myra Griqua, where children are waiting in tents for school furniture to be delivered. I THINK it’s in the interest ...

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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Harry Emerson Fosdick


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Benjamin Disraeli


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

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.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

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Monday editorial: Quotations on race relations in America ring true - Midwest Voices

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:56:00 GMT
My recent posts . Today’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day has special significance because of what will happen Tuesday: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States. It will be a magnificent step ...

Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:42:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. Neither ...

ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST - The Chronicle Herald

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:33:00 GMT
BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Jill Eikenberry was born in New Haven, Conn., on this date in 1947. This birthday gal is probably best remembered for her Golden Globe winning role as lawyer Ann Kelsey on the hit legal series L.A. Law in which she appeared as ...

Canadian dollar is trading at 79.37 cents US, down 0.33 cent at 11 a.m ... - Canada East

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:27:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 79.37 cents US, down 0.33 of a cent on Tuesday. The U.S. dollar was trading at C$1.26, up 0.53 of a cent. Pound sterling was at C$1.7608, down 8.28 cents and US$1.3965, down 0.49 of a cent. The euro was at C$1 ...

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