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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
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F Scott
Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Reinhold Niebuhr
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, �Journal, 1860
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend� The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
Doctor Who
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
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London shares - mid-morning features
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor ...
Reporting: London
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:24:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a ...
UW men's basketball: Notes and quotes from Minneapolis
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT
Wisconsin State Journal - The Badgers never trailed during their 63-47 victory over Minnesota, which led UW coach Bo Ryan to say, "I'd like to have a start like that, a middle like that and an end like that. How about that? I ...
Angry residents want factors out
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
Glasgow Evening Times - However Ross and Liddell insist it has followed good practice in obtaining quotes for the specification required and put forward a range of solutions to all the problems - but residents have not taken ... ¶ 12:07 AM 0 comments
Straight to the Quotations ...
F Scott
Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Reinhold Niebuhr
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, �Journal, 1860
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend� The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
Doctor Who
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
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London shares - mid-morning features
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor ...
Reporting: London
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:24:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a ...
UW men's basketball: Notes and quotes from Minneapolis
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT
Wisconsin State Journal - The Badgers never trailed during their 63-47 victory over Minnesota, which led UW coach Bo Ryan to say, "I'd like to have a start like that, a middle like that and an end like that. How about that? I ...
Angry residents want factors out
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
Glasgow Evening Times - However Ross and Liddell insist it has followed good practice in obtaining quotes for the specification required and put forward a range of solutions to all the problems - but residents have not taken ... ¶ 12:07 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotes Update
Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
Unknown
Everything you do or say is public relations.
Carl Sagan
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Hilaire Belloc
All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.
Epictetus
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Ranjan
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Publilius Syrus
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Carlos Castaneda
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience
The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
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Wis. suit quotes gunman: 'I am the cops'
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
News-Democrat - An off-duty sheriff's deputy boasted "I am the cops" before he gunned down six young people at a late-night party last year, according to claims seeking millions of dollars in damages filed Monday ...
Report Quotes Scorecard Photos As it happened
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:53:00 GMT
BBC Sport - Kevin Pietersen struck 43 off 23 balls while Dimitri Mascarenhas, who later took 2-19, struck four straight sixes as England posted 184-8. England then reduced an inexperienced New Zealand side to 70 ...
EDS to provide quick fare quotes for Continental
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Electronic Data Systems has signed an agreement with Continental Airlines to implement a new electronic fares system. Plano-based EDS (NYSE: EDS) did not disclose financial details of the contract ...
Ukrainian News Agency
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:02:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0520-5.0580 UAH/USD, then narrowed to 5.0540-5.0560 UAH/USD and by the end of the ... ¶ 12:07 AM 0 comments
Here are the Famous Quotes ...
Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
Unknown
Everything you do or say is public relations.
Carl Sagan
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Hilaire Belloc
All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.
Epictetus
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Ranjan
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Publilius Syrus
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Carlos Castaneda
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience
The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
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Wis. suit quotes gunman: 'I am the cops'
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
News-Democrat - An off-duty sheriff's deputy boasted "I am the cops" before he gunned down six young people at a late-night party last year, according to claims seeking millions of dollars in damages filed Monday ...
Report Quotes Scorecard Photos As it happened
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:53:00 GMT
BBC Sport - Kevin Pietersen struck 43 off 23 balls while Dimitri Mascarenhas, who later took 2-19, struck four straight sixes as England posted 184-8. England then reduced an inexperienced New Zealand side to 70 ...
EDS to provide quick fare quotes for Continental
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Electronic Data Systems has signed an agreement with Continental Airlines to implement a new electronic fares system. Plano-based EDS (NYSE: EDS) did not disclose financial details of the contract ...
Ukrainian News Agency
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:02:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0520-5.0580 UAH/USD, then narrowed to 5.0540-5.0560 UAH/USD and by the end of the ... ¶ 12:07 AM 0 comments
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Louise Beal
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
Bronwyn Davies
It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.
Thomas Jefferson
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.
Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
Leonardo DaVinci
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Euripides
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Carl Sandburg
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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EDS to provide quick fare quotes for Continental
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Electronic Data Systems has signed an agreement with Continental Airlines to implement a new electronic fares system. Plano-based EDS (NYSE: EDS) did not disclose financial details of the contract ...
Wis. suit quotes gunman: 'I am the cops'
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
News-Democrat - An off-duty sheriff's deputy boasted "I am the cops" before he gunned down six young people at a late-night party last year, according to claims seeking millions of dollars in damages filed Monday ...
Today's quotes from the Associated Press
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:25:00 GMT
Island Packet Online - “We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life.” — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of ...
Quotations of the day
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...
Oklahoma Agriculture
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:20:00 GMT
Tulsa World - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are Monday's mid-session cattle and closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE -- Estimated receipts: 8,600; last Monday: 7,229; last year ... ¶ 12:07 AM 0 comments
Check out these Quotes:
Louise Beal
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
Bronwyn Davies
It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.
Thomas Jefferson
The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.
Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
Leonardo DaVinci
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Euripides
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Carl Sandburg
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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EDS to provide quick fare quotes for Continental
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Electronic Data Systems has signed an agreement with Continental Airlines to implement a new electronic fares system. Plano-based EDS (NYSE: EDS) did not disclose financial details of the contract ...
Wis. suit quotes gunman: 'I am the cops'
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:00 GMT
News-Democrat - An off-duty sheriff's deputy boasted "I am the cops" before he gunned down six young people at a late-night party last year, according to claims seeking millions of dollars in damages filed Monday ...
Today's quotes from the Associated Press
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:25:00 GMT
Island Packet Online - “We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life.” — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of ...
Quotations of the day
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...
Oklahoma Agriculture
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:20:00 GMT
Tulsa World - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are Monday's mid-session cattle and closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE -- Estimated receipts: 8,600; last Monday: 7,229; last year ... ¶ 12:07 AM 0 comments
Latest greatest Famous Quotations
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Irving Berlin
There's no business like show business.
Rebecca West
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
John Updike
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
Gladys Taber
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
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Peters announces racing safety fund grants
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:21:00 GMT
Scoop - The following applications were approved, conditional on supplying appropriate quotes for the work: - $38,750 to the Cambridge -Te Awamutu Harness Racing Club for lowering light bulkheads to eliminate ...
Canadian dollar closed up 0.07 of a cent at 100.67 cents US
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:36:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9593, up 0.53 of a cent and US$1.9725, up 0.67 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4826, up 0.85 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.
Quotations of the day
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...
UW men's basketball: Notes and quotes from Minneapolis
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT
Wisconsin State Journal - The Badgers never trailed during their 63-47 victory over Minnesota, which led UW coach Bo Ryan to say, "I'd like to have a start like that, a middle like that and an end like that. How about that? I ... ¶ 12:07 AM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotations:
George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Irving Berlin
There's no business like show business.
Rebecca West
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
John Updike
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
Gladys Taber
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
More Quotations
Peters announces racing safety fund grants
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:21:00 GMT
Scoop - The following applications were approved, conditional on supplying appropriate quotes for the work: - $38,750 to the Cambridge -Te Awamutu Harness Racing Club for lowering light bulkheads to eliminate ...
Canadian dollar closed up 0.07 of a cent at 100.67 cents US
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:36:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling closed C$1.9593, up 0.53 of a cent and US$1.9725, up 0.67 of a cent. The euro was worth C$1.4826, up 0.85 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns, Capital Markets.
Quotations of the day
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life." — U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans on the accidental killing of nine ...
UW men's basketball: Notes and quotes from Minneapolis
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT
Wisconsin State Journal - The Badgers never trailed during their 63-47 victory over Minnesota, which led UW coach Bo Ryan to say, "I'd like to have a start like that, a middle like that and an end like that. How about that? I ... ¶ 12:07 AM 0 comments
Latest greatest Quotations
William Shakespeare
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
Swedish Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.
George Burns
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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ETO MES Leader Trakware Grows Dramatically Due to Randy Richel
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:12:00 GMT
TMCnet - Estimates and quotations are required to win business. Products are complex with long lead times, typically months or even years. Unlike standard products, the customer is heavily involved throughout ...
Ukrainian News Agency
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:02:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0520-5.0580 UAH/USD, then narrowed to 5.0540-5.0560 UAH/USD and by the end of the ...
Net Up To £547 Per Year Saving Online
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:09:00 GMT
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ETO MES Leader Trakware Grows Dramatically Due to Randy Richel
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:12:00 GMT
TMCnet - Estimates and quotations are required to win business. Products are complex with long lead times, typically months or even years. Unlike standard products, the customer is heavily involved throughout ... ¶ 12:06 AM 0 comments
Give me Quotations now!
William Shakespeare
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
Swedish Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.
George Burns
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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ETO MES Leader Trakware Grows Dramatically Due to Randy Richel
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:12:00 GMT
TMCnet - Estimates and quotations are required to win business. Products are complex with long lead times, typically months or even years. Unlike standard products, the customer is heavily involved throughout ...
Ukrainian News Agency
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:02:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0520-5.0580 UAH/USD, then narrowed to 5.0540-5.0560 UAH/USD and by the end of the ...
Net Up To £547 Per Year Saving Online
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:09:00 GMT
Presse Box - Response information was passed through MoneyExpert.com’s price comparison software to generate example quotations in order to determine respondents’ potential savings.
ETO MES Leader Trakware Grows Dramatically Due to Randy Richel
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:12:00 GMT
TMCnet - Estimates and quotations are required to win business. Products are complex with long lead times, typically months or even years. Unlike standard products, the customer is heavily involved throughout ... ¶ 12:06 AM 0 comments
