Thursday, November 13, 2008
Latest Quotes
Henry David Thoreau
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Jules Renard
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Eugene V. Debs
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Mao Tse-tung
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Ken Thompson
Maybe I should have screwed up.
William Ellery Channing
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
W. Somerset Maugham
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Phillip C. McGraw
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.
Bernadette Peters
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for
Lao Tzu
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
More Quotes
Canadian dollar closed at 82.54 cents US, up 1.73 cents - Canada East
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:44:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar climbed 1.73 cents to close at 82.54 cents US on Thursday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.15 cents Canadian, down 2.59 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1 ...
Feature: Chad Hanger Angles For Third CMT Win - Daily News-Record
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:47:00 GMT
The madness is starting to get to Chad Hanger. Hanger of Bridgewater found out Tuesday that he made it to the third round of Country Music Television’s Music City Madness ...
PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES: JERMAIN TAYLOR & JEFF LACY - Fighthype.com
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:48:00 GMT
"When we where roommates during the 2000 Olympics there where times when we talk about fighting each other one day. That day is now here and I know Jeff will be ready. We both want ...
Cullen releases grim Treasury figures - Stuff
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:54:00 GMT
FALSE HOPE: Finance Minister Michael Cullen says the bad economic news means it is no time for 'risky and reckless' promises' or additional tax cuts. Treasury has painted a very ...
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Quotes:
Henry David Thoreau
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Jules Renard
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Eugene V. Debs
I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Mao Tse-tung
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Ken Thompson
Maybe I should have screwed up.
William Ellery Channing
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
W. Somerset Maugham
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Phillip C. McGraw
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.
Bernadette Peters
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for
Lao Tzu
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
More Quotes
Canadian dollar closed at 82.54 cents US, up 1.73 cents - Canada East
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:44:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar climbed 1.73 cents to close at 82.54 cents US on Thursday. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.15 cents Canadian, down 2.59 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1 ...
Feature: Chad Hanger Angles For Third CMT Win - Daily News-Record
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:47:00 GMT
The madness is starting to get to Chad Hanger. Hanger of Bridgewater found out Tuesday that he made it to the third round of Country Music Television’s Music City Madness ...
PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES: JERMAIN TAYLOR & JEFF LACY - Fighthype.com
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:48:00 GMT
"When we where roommates during the 2000 Olympics there where times when we talk about fighting each other one day. That day is now here and I know Jeff will be ready. We both want ...
Cullen releases grim Treasury figures - Stuff
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:54:00 GMT
FALSE HOPE: Finance Minister Michael Cullen says the bad economic news means it is no time for 'risky and reckless' promises' or additional tax cuts. Treasury has painted a very ...
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