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Albert Einstein


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Charlie Chaplin


In the end, everything is a gag.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia


It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Francis Bacon


We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

Mark Twain


We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

Stanislaw Lem, "Holiday", 1963


Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Pope John Paul II


The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

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Canadian dollar closed at 82.29 cents US, up 0.74 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:54:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 82.29 cents US, up 0.74 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.52 cents Canadian, down 1.11 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1 ...

Macy Gray Slams Newspaper for 'Disrespectful' Misquote - femalefirst.co.uk

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:51:00 GMT
Macy Gray has slammed reports she's jealous of U.S. President Barack Obama's wife and wants "to have his kids" -accusing a New York newspaper of taking her words out of context ...

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William Of Orange


There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin-- I will die in the last ditch.

Romanian Proverb


Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu


He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Margaret Fuller


Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

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Johann Hari: Why should I respect these oppressive religions? - The Independent

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:51:00 GMT
The right to criticise religion is being slowly doused in acid. Across the world, the small, incremental gains made by secularism – giving us the space to doubt and question and ...

Top 50 dumb blonde quotes - The Sun

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:39:00 GMT
Paris Hilton, for instance, might fancy finding a bff in Blighty, but she should work out that Gordon Ramsey is not the Prime Minister first. But the hotel heiress isn’t the only ...

IDF censures officer for distributing incendiary religious pamphlets ... - Haaretz.com

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:55:00 GMT
The Israel Defense Forces says it has "severely reprimanded" an officer for distributing a religious booklet urging soldiers to show no mercy to their enemies. The unidentified ...

Canadian dollar closed at 82.29 cents US, up 0.74 of a cent - Canada East

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:54:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 82.29 cents US, up 0.74 of a cent on Wednesday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.52 cents Canadian, down 1.11 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1 ...

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Danish proverb


If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.

Thomas Jefferson


One man with courage is a majority.

Henry David Thoreau


Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

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.

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Edward R. Murrow


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

The Rock


I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.

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Thrills spills and swills – battle of the beers continues in ... - San Francisco Examiner

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:15:00 GMT
War is hell. I can tell you that as an observing beer war correspondent sometimes it gets ugly. What started out as supermarket shelf space competition escalated to a unique set of ...

Quotations of the day - Charleston Daily Mail

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:25:00 GMT
"Well I think it's not very promising right now.'' -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's response when ABC News "Nightline'' co-anchor Cynthia McFadden asked the embattled governor if ...

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Marcus Valerius Martialis


There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Epicurus


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Tallulah Bankhead


It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

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.

William James


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

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.

Sir John Vanbrugh


Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

James Branch Cabell


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

George Seaton Bowes


The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Shirley Temple


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

George Gurdjieff


Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:32:00 GMT
"Well I think it's not very promising right now.'' -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's response when ABC News "Nightline'' co-anchor Cynthia McFadden asked the embattled governor if ...

Sherwood Ross - OpEdNews.com

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:46:00 GMT
Sherwood Ross has worked as a publicist for Chicago; as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and workplace columnist for Reuters. He has also been a media consultant to colleges ...

'A World of Trouble' by Patrick Tyler - Los Angeles Times

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:49:00 GMT
Patrick Tyler is a veteran foreign and Washington correspondent who more recently has applied his formidable reporting skills and narrative gifts to diplomatic history. His latest ...

Drug driver killed mum - Stuff

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:03:00 GMT
CROSS TO BEAR: Most people would find having their mother killed by a driver fuelled on drugs a soul destroying experience. For Rachael Ford it encouraged to her to seek tougher ...

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John Atkinson


If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

H. L. Mencken


Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Amy Grant


More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Samuel Johnson


While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)


[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon�laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution�these can lift at a colossal humbug�push it a little�weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

James F. Hind


People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.

Chinese Proverb


A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

William Hazlitt


There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Aldous Huxley


Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:32:00 GMT
"Well I think it's not very promising right now.'' -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's response when ABC News "Nightline'' co-anchor Cynthia McFadden asked the embattled governor if ...

GOTHIC TIGER - Irish novelist mines '60s, Joyce for black comedy - Missoulian

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:59:00 GMT
At some point, there’s a large and interesting essay to be written on why so much of the most interesting new English-language fiction comes to us from Indian and Irish writers ...

Insure.com Looks at Policies for Tricked-out, Souped-up Cars - MSN MoneyCentral

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:27:00 GMT
DARIEN, Ill. , Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For some car owners, "bling is king" and style and speed are everything. But one thing is certain: "Souped-up cars" or "bling ...

1972: Nixon makes historic visit to China - BBC News

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:08:00 GMT
The American President Richard Nixon has arrived in China at the start of a week-long summit aimed at ending 20 years of frosty relations between the two countries. His visit began ...

India FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 Mths Commercial Paper Benchmark 9.6125% - Reuters India

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:52:00 GMT
Jan 28 Wednesday (Reuters) - The FIMMDA-REUTERS 3mths Commercial Paper Benchmark is 9.6125% compared with 9.6125% on Tuesday 27 Jan TENORS BENCHMARK ----- ----- 1 Month 8 ...

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