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Donald J. AdamsThere are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Sir Arthur EddingtonI 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.
Yiddish ProverbSmall children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
G.K. ChestertonI regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
William GoldingAmong the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
George Bernard ShawThere is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
Wayne's WorldGarth Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWhoso loves, believes the impossible.
Horace WalpoleLife is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Loren KleinTo touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.
Aesop, The Lion and the MouseNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
More QuotationsUSDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Jan 22 (INO News)Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:57:53 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Tue, Jan 22, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.
Chavez: US attack on Iran will spike oilSun, 18 Nov 2007 03:35:00 GMT
Finanz Nachrichten - After the quotes from Islam's holy book, Chavez warned that the U.S. should not target OPEC members for foreign policy reasons. 'If the U.S. attacks Iran or Venezuela, the price of ...
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:29:14 GMT
"What I want to say first is, are there three people in this debate, not two? And I also want to know -- I also want to know on behalf of voters here in South Carolina, this kind of squabbling, how many children is this going to get health care?
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Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Henry BromelWe all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
Antoine De Saint-ExuperyA rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Dennis O'KeefeI told you he had a cash register mind. Rings every time he opens his mouth.
Eric HofferThe hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Bertrand RussellGovernment can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheOne will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
George Bernard ShawIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Andy WarholEverybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.
Melvin FittingOf course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion.
Henry S. HaskinsTreat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
More QuotationsHeath Ledger found dead, aged 28Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:03:00 GMT
Stuff - What a shock! Reports of Aussie Oscar-nominee Heath Ledger’s death from a possible drug overdose seem to have come out of the blue. Pills were found by his body. The New York Times quotes the New ...
Farewell to Sir EdMon, 21 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT
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Anambra Radio Mast destroyed in fire outbreakTue, 22 Jan 2008 23:39:00 GMT
Vanguard - He said that quotations were already being received from the public for the immediate repair of the mast because the state government was desirous to putting the mast back in place.
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Samuel ButlerLife is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Daniel J. BoorstinFreedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Scottish ProverbTwelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
Margaret Hilda ThatcherStanding in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
Karl MarxFrom each, according to his ability to each, according to his need.
Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of DefenseGoing to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.
Cullen HightowerWe may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Bertolt BrechtWar is like love; it always finds a way.
George EliotIt seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
Jack Handey Deep ThoughtsI wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo, I'd have all my money back.
Benjamin FranklinAll would live long, but none would be old.
More QuotesFears over insurance comparison websitesTue, 22 Jan 2008 17:19:00 GMT
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Quotes about ArchitectureTue, 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 ...]
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AirplaneTed Striker It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit.
Amy VanderbiltParents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
Katharine WhitehornNo nice men are good at getting taxis.
Author UnknownBehavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
American Indian ProverbAfter dark all cats are leopards. Zuni
Horace, EpistlesOnce a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Joseph BarettiI hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Alfred North WhiteheadIf a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Steven WrightMy theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
More QuotesInternational stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:39:24 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.22 january21 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 11,933.6312,099.30(- 165.67) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,287.67 2,340.02(-52.35) TokyoNikkei12,573.0513,325.94(- 752...
USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Jan 22 (INO News)Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:06:08 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Tue, Jan 22, 2008 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.
6 Singular QuotesSat, 12 Jan 2008 21:58:00 +0000
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is ...]
Quotes from Sir Edmund Hillary's funeral (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:57:24 GMT
Quotes from today's funeral service for Sir Edmund Hillary.
More News (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:30:43 GMT
Check the markets Look up quotes. Build your portfolio. POMONA - A man convicted of inflicting major injuries on his 2-month-old daughter by shaking her in 2006 was sentenced to 12 years in state prison Friday, officials said.
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Mary Wilson LittleThere is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive TherapyPeople and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
Matt GroeningWarning signs that lover is bored:
1. Passionless kisses
2. Frequent sighing
3. Moved, left no forwarding address.
Bertolt BrechtBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThis secret spoke Life herself unto me 'Behold,' said she, 'I am that which must ever surpass itself.'
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Francis BaconThere is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Vartan GregorianLibraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
More Quotes4 Quotes on FieldsSun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
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Quotes about ArchitectureTue, 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 ...]
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Interbank Hryvnia Rate Down By 0.5 Kopeck To 5.06 UAH/USDTue, 22 Jan 2008 15:18:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - On Tuesday, the interbank hryvnia rate fell by 0.5 kopeck to 5.06 UAH/USD after remaining stable on Monday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0520-5.0580 UAH/USD, then ...