Sunday, January 27, 2008
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Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
Clive Staples Lewis
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
H. L. Mencken
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.
Unknown
A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
Emerson Pugh
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
As soon as there is life there is danger.
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Robert Anthony
If you are not leaning, no one will let you down.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
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The Week in Weird Celeb Quotes
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:16:00 GMT
ABC News - Apparently, Victoria Beckham loves everything her husband has to offer. At a Roberto Cavalli fashion show on Jan. 14, the Spice Girl mentioned how much she adored seeing her husband's half-naked body ...
New York Giants Quotes
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:30:00 GMT
WNYT - A: Rich is doing okay. He is making progress. So we are hoping he will be able to work next week. Q: With eight days to go do you like the way your team is getting set as you continue to move along? A ...
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:36:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.25 january24 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,397.6312,378.61(+19.02) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,372.55 2,360.92(+11.63) TokyoNikkei13,629.1613,092.78(+ 536.3...
Pick of the week
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:30:00 GMT
Times Online - Thus one character’s struggle with breast cancer sits side by side with another’s decision to spend a working day communicating only in quotations from the first two Godfather films.
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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:54:00 GMT
Reuters - DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy could enter a mild recession if financial markets remain in turmoil, the chief executive of Brazil's state-controlled oil company, Petrobras ... ¶ 5:15 PM
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Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
Clive Staples Lewis
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
H. L. Mencken
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.
Unknown
A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
Emerson Pugh
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
As soon as there is life there is danger.
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Robert Anthony
If you are not leaning, no one will let you down.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
More Quotes
The Week in Weird Celeb Quotes
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:16:00 GMT
ABC News - Apparently, Victoria Beckham loves everything her husband has to offer. At a Roberto Cavalli fashion show on Jan. 14, the Spice Girl mentioned how much she adored seeing her husband's half-naked body ...
New York Giants Quotes
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:30:00 GMT
WNYT - A: Rich is doing okay. He is making progress. So we are hoping he will be able to work next week. Q: With eight days to go do you like the way your team is getting set as you continue to move along? A ...
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:36:37 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.25 january24 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,397.6312,378.61(+19.02) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,372.55 2,360.92(+11.63) TokyoNikkei13,629.1613,092.78(+ 536.3...
Pick of the week
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:30:00 GMT
Times Online - Thus one character’s struggle with breast cancer sits side by side with another’s decision to spend a working day communicating only in quotations from the first two Godfather films.
(Adds details, quotes)
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:54:00 GMT
Reuters - DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy could enter a mild recession if financial markets remain in turmoil, the chief executive of Brazil's state-controlled oil company, Petrobras ... ¶ 5:15 PM
