Thursday, October 16, 2008
Great Quotes
Christopher Morley
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
Samuel Johnson
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
More Quotes
Georgian Threat to Moscow Uncovered - Kommersant
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:21:00 GMT
A terrorist war may break out in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi , Izvestia newspaper wrote today. The publication has in its possession copies of telegrams sent to all Moscow ...
TOPWRAP 2-Global markets tumble on recession fears - Reuters
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:15:00 GMT
* Bernanke says U.S. economy faces "significant threat" * Tokyo shares fall 11.2 percent, oil hits 13-month low. * UBS, Credit Suisse get emergency funding * Japan manufacturing ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:35:00 GMT
"This is for the city for Philadelphia. We have one more step, one big step -- then we're going to make a grand parade.'' -- Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel after his ...
An opera that hovers on threshold of the nuclear age - Boston Globe
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:15:00 GMT
NEW YORK - The composer John Adams writes operas that exist at the junction of history and modern mythology. Taking an event such as Nixon's visit to China, or the creation of the ...
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Straight to the Quotes ...
Christopher Morley
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
Samuel Johnson
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
More Quotes
Georgian Threat to Moscow Uncovered - Kommersant
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:21:00 GMT
A terrorist war may break out in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi , Izvestia newspaper wrote today. The publication has in its possession copies of telegrams sent to all Moscow ...
TOPWRAP 2-Global markets tumble on recession fears - Reuters
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:15:00 GMT
* Bernanke says U.S. economy faces "significant threat" * Tokyo shares fall 11.2 percent, oil hits 13-month low. * UBS, Credit Suisse get emergency funding * Japan manufacturing ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:35:00 GMT
"This is for the city for Philadelphia. We have one more step, one big step -- then we're going to make a grand parade.'' -- Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel after his ...
An opera that hovers on threshold of the nuclear age - Boston Globe
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:15:00 GMT
NEW YORK - The composer John Adams writes operas that exist at the junction of history and modern mythology. Taking an event such as Nixon's visit to China, or the creation of the ...
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