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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Famous Quotes Update
Bradley Miller
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
Charles Rosin
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
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Daytona: Toyota NASCAR Truck Race Quotes, Recap
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:18:00 GMT
PaddockTalk - Todd Bodine's win Friday night in the No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Tundra at Daytona International Speedway is the 39th win for Toyota in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) since the start of the ...
Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.718 ounce (Canadian Business)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:45:30 GMT
The Canadian Press February 15, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.718 oz., $569.63 kg.; Thursday $18.057 oz., $580.53 kg.
Quips & Quotes
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:46:00 GMT
Salem News - "I've had my arms around the bell today. It just reverberates." — Selectman Harry Christensen on the delivery of the ship's bell from the USS Marblehead, shown in photo at right with Wayne Butler of ...
Quotations of the day
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:33:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "I'm still blown away by the coincidences. I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this.'' -- Eric Thompson, an Internet gun dealer who said he sold a weapon to the ...
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Bradley Miller
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
Charles Rosin
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
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Daytona: Toyota NASCAR Truck Race Quotes, Recap
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:18:00 GMT
PaddockTalk - Todd Bodine's win Friday night in the No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Tundra at Daytona International Speedway is the 39th win for Toyota in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) since the start of the ...
Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.718 ounce (Canadian Business)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:45:30 GMT
The Canadian Press February 15, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.718 oz., $569.63 kg.; Thursday $18.057 oz., $580.53 kg.
Quips & Quotes
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:46:00 GMT
Salem News - "I've had my arms around the bell today. It just reverberates." — Selectman Harry Christensen on the delivery of the ship's bell from the USS Marblehead, shown in photo at right with Wayne Butler of ...
Quotations of the day
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:33:00 GMT
Charleston Gazette - "I'm still blown away by the coincidences. I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this.'' -- Eric Thompson, an Internet gun dealer who said he sold a weapon to the ...
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Latest Quotes
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Dean Gordon Brown
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...
Gerald Barzan
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Ronald Reagan
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Quentin Crisp
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
James Branch Cabell
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Napolean Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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Quips and quotes (Eagle-Tribune Online)
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:16:55 GMT
"It took four to five minutes to find them. Four to five minutes seemed like four to five hours." Lawrence fire Chief Peter Takvorian, on the time it took to find two firefighters briefly trapped on the third floor of a Royal Street building that burned Thursday night.
The Letter of 138 Muslim scholars to the Pope and Christian Leaders
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:42:00 GMT
AsiaNews.IT - In quotations from the New and Old Testament, they take for granted that the Bible is the word of God. This too is a relative novelty. In the Koran this idea is theoretically affirmed, but it is ...
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:46:05 GMT
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle. I said I could get up and run or I could die here.'' -- Lauren Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore, who was sitting in the third row of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University when a gunman opened fire. Five students died and 16 were wounded.
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:57:26 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.Feb 13 Feb 14 Change...
Cotton & Western Mining, Inc. -- CWRM Receives $6,627,445.00 in Quotes for Baja Mining Equipment (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:45:00 GMT
Cotton & Western Mining, Inc., Robert L. Cotton, President & C.E.O. of Houston-based Cotton & Western Mining, said today that the company has received all of its quotes from Valley Equipment for specialized mining equipment together with other quotes for heavy equipment, trucks and trailers for its Baja California metal minerals project.
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Check out these Quotes:
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Dean Gordon Brown
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...
Gerald Barzan
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Ronald Reagan
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Quentin Crisp
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
James Branch Cabell
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Napolean Hill
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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Quips and quotes (Eagle-Tribune Online)
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:16:55 GMT
"It took four to five minutes to find them. Four to five minutes seemed like four to five hours." Lawrence fire Chief Peter Takvorian, on the time it took to find two firefighters briefly trapped on the third floor of a Royal Street building that burned Thursday night.
The Letter of 138 Muslim scholars to the Pope and Christian Leaders
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:42:00 GMT
AsiaNews.IT - In quotations from the New and Old Testament, they take for granted that the Bible is the word of God. This too is a relative novelty. In the Koran this idea is theoretically affirmed, but it is ...
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:46:05 GMT
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle. I said I could get up and run or I could die here.'' -- Lauren Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore, who was sitting in the third row of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University when a gunman opened fire. Five students died and 16 were wounded.
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:57:26 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.Feb 13 Feb 14 Change...
Cotton & Western Mining, Inc. -- CWRM Receives $6,627,445.00 in Quotes for Baja Mining Equipment (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:45:00 GMT
Cotton & Western Mining, Inc., Robert L. Cotton, President & C.E.O. of Houston-based Cotton & Western Mining, said today that the company has received all of its quotes from Valley Equipment for specialized mining equipment together with other quotes for heavy equipment, trucks and trailers for its Baja California metal minerals project.
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Daily Quotes
Sir John Vanbrugh
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Finley Peter Dunne
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
John Haldane
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
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A revived city detects new trouble in the air
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:05:00 GMT
Boston Globe - He has not lost his sense of humor, collecting 1,200 signatures on a "Save Our Smell" petition and posting pertinent quotations on Rock City's website. Says one by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when ...
London Stock Exchange quotations
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:14:00 GMT
Earthtimes - FT-100 Index 5,787.60(- 91.70) BAT Industries 1,811.00(- 23.00) BP Amoco 553.50(- 10.50) Diageo 1,062.00(- 19.00) HSBC Holdings 730.00(- 17.00) Prudential ...
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Today's Quotes:
Sir John Vanbrugh
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Finley Peter Dunne
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
John Haldane
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
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A revived city detects new trouble in the air
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:05:00 GMT
Boston Globe - He has not lost his sense of humor, collecting 1,200 signatures on a "Save Our Smell" petition and posting pertinent quotations on Rock City's website. Says one by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when ...
London Stock Exchange quotations
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:14:00 GMT
Earthtimes - FT-100 Index 5,787.60(- 91.70) BAT Industries 1,811.00(- 23.00) BP Amoco 553.50(- 10.50) Diageo 1,062.00(- 19.00) HSBC Holdings 730.00(- 17.00) Prudential ...
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Today's Quotations
George Eliot
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Maurice Sendak
There must be more to life than having everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Cher
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him.
Jenna Elfman
My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
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Les changes et l'euro au menu du G7 Finances
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:39:00 GMT
Challenges - La réforme du Fonds monétaire international à la fois sur la redéfinition des quotes-parts des différents pays et la question de son financement sera aussi discuté.
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:25:21 GMT
``Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.'' — A representative for the New York City medical examiner. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment Jan. 22.
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Quotations:
George Eliot
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Maurice Sendak
There must be more to life than having everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Cher
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him.
Jenna Elfman
My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
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Les changes et l'euro au menu du G7 Finances
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:39:00 GMT
Challenges - La réforme du Fonds monétaire international à la fois sur la redéfinition des quotes-parts des différents pays et la question de son financement sera aussi discuté.
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:25:21 GMT
``Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.'' — A representative for the New York City medical examiner. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment Jan. 22.
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Great Quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do�?
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
Robert Valett
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Laurence J. Peter
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04
If there�s one thing I know it�s God does love a good joke.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:45:52 GMT
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle. I said I could get up and run or I could die here.'' -- Lauren Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore, who was sitting in the third row of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University when a gunman opened fire. Five students died and 16 were wounded.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:26:24 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...
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Straight to the Quotes ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do�?
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
Robert Valett
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
Laurence J. Peter
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04
If there�s one thing I know it�s God does love a good joke.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
More Quotes
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:45:52 GMT
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle. I said I could get up and run or I could die here.'' -- Lauren Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore, who was sitting in the third row of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University when a gunman opened fire. Five students died and 16 were wounded.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:26:24 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...
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