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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Miguel de Cervantes


The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Clare Booth Luce


They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Henry David Thoreau


Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Aeschylus


I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

The Rock


I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

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Fine silver quotations Monday: C$16.719 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:07:46 GMT
The Canadian Press March 10, 2008 - 2:51 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $20.071 oz., $645.28 kg.; Friday $20.665 oz., $664.38 kg.

Reporting: London

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:56:00 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 ...

Stock & fund quotes

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:11:00 GMT
ninemsn - TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - Japan's Agriculture Ministry bought 36,400 tonnes of food wheat from Canada and 20,000 tonnes of food barley from Australia through a tender under the ...

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:36:05 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:51:09 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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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.

Sophocles


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Robert Green Ingersoll


If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976


We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

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.

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Thomas Paine


When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

G.K. Chesterton


The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bradley Miller


Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

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Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:39:00 GMT
Wirtschaftswoche - Just take a closer look at random quotations from actual Americans themselves and you will find the evidence behind Hofstede’s scorecards: “Honest criticism is hard to take ...

Fine silver quotations Monday: C$16.719 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:55:54 GMT
The Canadian Press March 10, 2008 - 2:51 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $20.071 oz., $645.28 kg.; Friday $20.665 oz., $664.38 kg.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:45:58 GMT
"I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my -- or any -- sense of right and wrong.'' -- New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer apologizing to his family and the people of New York amid a prostitution scandal in which he is accused of hiring a call girl.

Fine silver quotations Monday: C$16.719 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:55:54 GMT
The Canadian Press March 10, 2008 - 2:51 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Monday $20.071 oz., $645.28 kg.; Friday $20.665 oz., $664.38 kg.

Hic fuit leo

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:12:00 GMT
Frankfurter Allgemeine - Zuschreibungen und Erfindungen, wo man auch hineingreift in den Büchmann oder ins „Oxford Dictionary of Quotations“. Auch mehr oder weniger alle Witzworte Winston Churchills ...

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John Maynard Keynes


Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Oprah Winfrey


Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard


All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Neil Kinnock


I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes


The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

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Dick Cavett


I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5


Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one...

William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)


Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

Michael Jordan


You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

The Rock


I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.

Calvin Coolidge


Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Mark Twain


It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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Press Quotes (All About Jazz)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:17:20 GMT
In a statement last week, Conductor John Williams called Johnson "one of the great instrumentalists of his generation.

Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:38:57 GMT
"I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my -- or any -- sense of right and wrong.'' -- New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer apologizing to his family and the people of New York amid a prostitution scandal in which he is accused of hiring a call girl.

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Tallulah Bankhead


They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Thomas H. Huxley


Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Jewish Proverb


If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.

Richard Phillips Feynman


If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Timothy Leary


Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

John Ernst Steinbeck


Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Clive Staples Lewis


Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects


The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Cullen Hightower


There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists.

Horace


Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Samuel Richardson


Good men must be affectionate men.

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DGSE Companies, Inc. Announces That It Has Completed Its Move to New ...

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:37:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Real-time price quotations and real-time order execution in precious metals are available at www.USBullionExchange.com and www.SuperiorPreciousMetals.com.

No bilateral talks with US on Tehran's agenda: Hosseini (Recast to add more information, quotations) (Islamic Republic News Agency)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:24:20 GMT
Iran - US - Talks Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, said on Monday that no bilateral talks with the US was on Tehran's agenda for the time being.

VantageWire.com Launches Free Real-time Stock Quotes on Canadian and U.S. Markets (Centre Daily Times)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:01:37 GMT
Vantage Communications Ltd. announces the launch of VantageWire.com, the first website in the world to offer free real-time stock quotes on both the Canadian and U.S. stock markets.

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