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Friday, January 18, 2008
Great Famous Quotations
Herbert Hoover
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Arthur C. Clarke, 1983
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
Henrik Tikkanen
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early.
Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Germain G. Glidden
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
Arthur W. Radford
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Thomas Wolfe
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Enid Bagnold
Judges don't age time decorates them.
Mickey Friedman
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
Bible, Isaiah 32:17
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
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Peter Griffin : Steve Jobs Show tinged with disappointment
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:43:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Now the frustration - the fact Apple is asking for US$20 from early iPod Touch buyers for a software update that will give them full email capability and access to stock quotes and weather updates.
Pavlik vs Taylor: Jermain Taylor Workout Quotes
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:30:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - "When I win, I'll be walking out of there with everything he took from me. I'm walking out of there with my pride." Is it working out better without Emanuel? "It feels great. It's just like the old ...
Canadian dollar closed down 0.49 of a cent at 97.11 cents US
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:14:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$2.0295, up 1.83 cents and US$1.9708, up 0.79 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5099, up 0.74 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets. ¶ 10:42 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotations:
Herbert Hoover
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Arthur C. Clarke, 1983
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
Henrik Tikkanen
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early.
Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Germain G. Glidden
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
Arthur W. Radford
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Thomas Wolfe
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
Enid Bagnold
Judges don't age time decorates them.
Mickey Friedman
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
Bible, Isaiah 32:17
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
More Quotations
Peter Griffin : Steve Jobs Show tinged with disappointment
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:43:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - Now the frustration - the fact Apple is asking for US$20 from early iPod Touch buyers for a software update that will give them full email capability and access to stock quotes and weather updates.
Pavlik vs Taylor: Jermain Taylor Workout Quotes
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:30:00 GMT
East Side Boxing - "When I win, I'll be walking out of there with everything he took from me. I'm walking out of there with my pride." Is it working out better without Emanuel? "It feels great. It's just like the old ...
Canadian dollar closed down 0.49 of a cent at 97.11 cents US
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:14:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$2.0295, up 1.83 cents and US$1.9708, up 0.79 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5099, up 0.74 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets. ¶ 10:42 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotations Update
Homer
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
Elliot Wayne Eisner
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough
Chauncey Wright
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
Tom Fitzgerald
We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.
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Month Quotes
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:40:17 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 7,413.53 (-58.04) MDAX8,455.09 (-75.39) Adidas 40.89 (+0.08) Allianz 141.34 (-0.68) BASF 94...
Economic stimulus quotes (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:16:34 GMT
Some quotes Thursday regarding a possible economic stimulus plan: --- "Our discussion today is about short-term stimulus. ... Just in the terms of the next few months, I think that the evidence suggests that measures that involve putting money in the hands of households and firms that will spend it in the near term will be more effective. ...
QuickARC Launches Instant Online Quotes for 3D Printed Architectural Scale Models (BuildingOnline)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:49:23 GMT
QuickARC has launched the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry's first web-based system to provide instant online quotes for the construction of architectural scale models using 3D Printing technology. ¶ 9:46 AM 0 comments
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Homer
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
Elliot Wayne Eisner
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough
Chauncey Wright
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
Tom Fitzgerald
We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.
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Month Quotes
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:40:17 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 7,413.53 (-58.04) MDAX8,455.09 (-75.39) Adidas 40.89 (+0.08) Allianz 141.34 (-0.68) BASF 94...
Economic stimulus quotes (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:16:34 GMT
Some quotes Thursday regarding a possible economic stimulus plan: --- "Our discussion today is about short-term stimulus. ... Just in the terms of the next few months, I think that the evidence suggests that measures that involve putting money in the hands of households and firms that will spend it in the near term will be more effective. ...
QuickARC Launches Instant Online Quotes for 3D Printed Architectural Scale Models (BuildingOnline)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:49:23 GMT
QuickARC has launched the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry's first web-based system to provide instant online quotes for the construction of architectural scale models using 3D Printing technology. ¶ 9:46 AM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotations
Lillian Hellman
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Mark Twain, Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Susan B. Anthony
Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.
Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Martin Heidegger
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.
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Quotes from the GOP candidates on Mich. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:34:02 GMT
Quotes from the Republican candidates on Tuesday's Michigan primary:
Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.116 ounce (Canadian Business)
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:47:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 15, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg.; Monday $17.404 oz., $559.54 kg. ¶ 5:56 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotations:
Lillian Hellman
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Mark Twain, Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Susan B. Anthony
Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.
Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Martin Heidegger
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.
More Quotes
Quotes from the GOP candidates on Mich. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:34:02 GMT
Quotes from the Republican candidates on Tuesday's Michigan primary:
Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.116 ounce (Canadian Business)
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:47:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 15, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg.; Monday $17.404 oz., $559.54 kg. ¶ 5:56 AM 0 comments
Quotes Update
Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
Bob Hope
Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.
Carlos A. Urbizo
Stoop and you'll be stepped on stand tall and you'll be shot at.
Harper Lee
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
B. B. King
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Phoenix Flame
A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
Bertrand Russell
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Oilers report: Notes, quotes
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:50:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Forward Sam Gagner was named to the NHL's YoungStars game. He's 10th in rookie scoring with 16 points and has made highlight packages all around the league with his shootout goals. "It's pretty ...
Canadian dollar closed down 0.77 of a cent at 97.60 cents US
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:59:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$2.0112, up 1.50 cents and US$1.9629, down 0.07 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5025, down 0.31 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets. ¶ 12:40 AM 0 comments
Here are the Quotes ...
Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
Bob Hope
Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.
Carlos A. Urbizo
Stoop and you'll be stepped on stand tall and you'll be shot at.
Harper Lee
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
B. B. King
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Phoenix Flame
A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
Bertrand Russell
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Oilers report: Notes, quotes
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:50:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Forward Sam Gagner was named to the NHL's YoungStars game. He's 10th in rookie scoring with 16 points and has made highlight packages all around the league with his shootout goals. "It's pretty ...
Canadian dollar closed down 0.77 of a cent at 97.60 cents US
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:59:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$2.0112, up 1.50 cents and US$1.9629, down 0.07 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.5025, down 0.31 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets. ¶ 12:40 AM 0 comments
Latest greatest Quotations
American Proverb
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
D. Morgan
If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.
Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882
If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.
Barbara Tober
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Joseph Roux
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
John Ervine
Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.
Anon.
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Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]
Defining Israeli Zionist racism -- part 9 of 12 (Online Journal)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:39:57 GMT
Having previously discussed certain aspects of the Zionist practice that routinely rejects or tries to prove false the veracity of racist quotations (verbal or written) attributed to Israeli figures, we provide a sampling of these quotations.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $16.787 ounce
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:34:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $16.787 oz., $539.70 kg.; Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site ...
(Changes dateline, byline, updates prices, adds quotes)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:57:00 GMT
Reuters UK - LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The euro slid to two-week lows versus the dollar on Thursday after selling off sharply the previous day when comments from a euro zone policymaker fuelled fears that U.S ...
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:07:57 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.Jan 16 Jan 15 Difference... ¶ 12:14 AM 0 comments
Today's Quotations:
American Proverb
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
D. Morgan
If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.
Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882
If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.
Barbara Tober
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Joseph Roux
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
John Ervine
Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.
Anon.
Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one (YN)
More Quotations
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...]
Defining Israeli Zionist racism -- part 9 of 12 (Online Journal)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:39:57 GMT
Having previously discussed certain aspects of the Zionist practice that routinely rejects or tries to prove false the veracity of racist quotations (verbal or written) attributed to Israeli figures, we provide a sampling of these quotations.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $16.787 ounce
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:34:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $16.787 oz., $539.70 kg.; Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site ...
(Changes dateline, byline, updates prices, adds quotes)
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:57:00 GMT
Reuters UK - LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The euro slid to two-week lows versus the dollar on Thursday after selling off sharply the previous day when comments from a euro zone policymaker fuelled fears that U.S ...
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:07:57 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.Jan 16 Jan 15 Difference... ¶ 12:14 AM 0 comments
