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Bertrand RussellSo far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Cornelius StamNot only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood-bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.
Lee C. BollingerNurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means.
Ernest RutherfordThe only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't.
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John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won’t tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch’s eyes. And as if this wasn’t ...]
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Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
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Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
Clive Staples LewisSome people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
H. L. MenckenA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Franklin Delano RooseveltI consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
William ShakespeareFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.
UnknownA chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
Emerson PughIf the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)As soon as there is life there is danger.
James ThurberHumor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Robert AnthonyIf you are not leaning, no one will let you down.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
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ABC News - Apparently, Victoria Beckham loves everything her husband has to offer. At a Roberto Cavalli fashion show on Jan. 14, the Spice Girl mentioned how much she adored seeing her husband's half-naked body ...
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WNYT - A: Rich is doing okay. He is making progress. So we are hoping he will be able to work next week. Q: With eight days to go do you like the way your team is getting set as you continue to move along? A ...
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Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.25 january24 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 12,397.6312,378.61(+19.02) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,372.55 2,360.92(+11.63) TokyoNikkei13,629.1613,092.78(+ 536.3...
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Times Online - Thus one character’s struggle with breast cancer sits side by side with another’s decision to spend a working day communicating only in quotations from the first two Godfather films.
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Reuters - DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy could enter a mild recession if financial markets remain in turmoil, the chief executive of Brazil's state-controlled oil company, Petrobras ...
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UnknownIf all the world's a stage, then where is the audience sitting
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersWhat is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
John Fitzgerald KennedyPerfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Robert BenchleyTell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
Korean ProverbWhere there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important.
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"Maybe I think I have the same tennis as Ali's boxing"
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Daily Telegraph - But it is well constructed and a lot of research has gone into it: there are quotations from many of the surviving musicians and excerpts from old interviews. ("Are you often depressed?
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Reuters - DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy could enter a mild recession if financial markets remain in turmoil, the chief executive of Brazil's state-controlled oil company, Petrobras ...
4 Lift QuotesFri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
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Woodrow WilsonJust what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Albert EinsteinConcern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
William Jennings BryanAn orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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
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Aussie Open quotes (BBC News)Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:42:31 GMT
"Maybe I think I have the same tennis as Ali's boxing"
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Jack Handey Deep ThoughtsWhen you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.'
Havelock EllisJealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Mae WestVirtue has its own reward, but no box office.
Charles Farrar BrowneLet us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
CaddyShackSpalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.
Madame de StaelThe more I see of men, the better I like dogs.
Benjamin FranklinWhen the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.
Janet Louise HolmanWhen in the pursuit of happiness Obstacles cross our way, When all seems lost And there is a darkening of the day. Remember God in His heaven And it does not cost to call. We'll find despite our troubles We've been blessed after all.
Ralph NaderI start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
HoraceDum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)
Thomas FullerIf we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
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Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.123 ounce (Canadian Business)Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:48:37 GMT
The Canadian Press January 24, 2008 - 12:38 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg.; Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.