Saturday, May 17, 2008
Daily Quotations
Confucius
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Cicero
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
The Koran
Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.
Ron Dart
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.
Maria Montessori
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Seneca
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jerry Seinfeld
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
More Quotations
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 16 May 2008 18:30:22 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,304 30(+ 52.50)(+ 0.84 %) BAT Industries 1,980.00(+ 14.00)(+ 0.71 %) BP Amoco 635.00(+9.50)(+ 1.52 %) Diageo ...
Easley backs tribute to black experience - Raleigh News & Observer
Sat, 17 May 2008 06:41:00 GMT
An artist's depiction shows the proposed monument honoring the black experience in North Carolina. RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley has thrown his support behind a proposed monument on ...
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.588 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:54:10 GMT
The Canadian Press May 15, 2008 - 1:44 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.588 oz., $565.45 kg.; Wednesday $17.294 oz., $556 kg.
Last Saturday's Op page pushed my buttons - Free Lance-Star
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT
The May 10 FLS opinion page provided quite a bit of political fodder, and I can't resist commenting. First point: Opinion-page editor Paul Akers is not alone as he opines on true ...
¶ 11:08 PM
Here are the Quotations ...
Confucius
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Cicero
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
The Koran
Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.
Ron Dart
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.
Maria Montessori
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Seneca
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jerry Seinfeld
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
More Quotations
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 16 May 2008 18:30:22 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,304 30(+ 52.50)(+ 0.84 %) BAT Industries 1,980.00(+ 14.00)(+ 0.71 %) BP Amoco 635.00(+9.50)(+ 1.52 %) Diageo ...
Easley backs tribute to black experience - Raleigh News & Observer
Sat, 17 May 2008 06:41:00 GMT
An artist's depiction shows the proposed monument honoring the black experience in North Carolina. RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley has thrown his support behind a proposed monument on ...
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.588 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:54:10 GMT
The Canadian Press May 15, 2008 - 1:44 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.588 oz., $565.45 kg.; Wednesday $17.294 oz., $556 kg.
Last Saturday's Op page pushed my buttons - Free Lance-Star
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT
The May 10 FLS opinion page provided quite a bit of political fodder, and I can't resist commenting. First point: Opinion-page editor Paul Akers is not alone as he opines on true ...
¶ 11:08 PM
