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Monday, March 31, 2008
Famous Quotes Update
Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Kahlil Gibran
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
Marion Woodman
It is amazing that our souls -- our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world -- are contained within these temporal bodies.
Stan Lee, Spider-Man comic
With great power comes great responsibility.
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Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.839 ounce (Canadian Business)
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:55:44 GMT
The Canadian Press March 28, 2008 - 1:53 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.839 oz., $605.67 kg.; Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.
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Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:20:54 GMT
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Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Kahlil Gibran
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
Marion Woodman
It is amazing that our souls -- our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world -- are contained within these temporal bodies.
Stan Lee, Spider-Man comic
With great power comes great responsibility.
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Fine silver quotations Friday: $18.839 ounce (Canadian Business)
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:55:44 GMT
The Canadian Press March 28, 2008 - 1:53 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.839 oz., $605.67 kg.; Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.
F1: Bahrain preview quotes: Renault (autosport.com)
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:20:54 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Renault
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Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
Peter Farquharson
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
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Botswana: Mogae's Quotable Quotes (AllAfrica.com)
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:35:23 GMT
An American scholar once remarked that when it comes to "presidential timber", it is painfully obvious that presidents do not all come from the same trees. Some are carved from redwoods, others from sturdy oaks, and then there are those whose origins may well have been milkweeds or hydrangea bushes.
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Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:09:40 GMT
-- an Arabic term sometimes translated as "strife" -- intersperses images of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran, Islam’s holy book.
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $19.336 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:11:29 GMT
The Canadian Press March 27, 2008 - 1:56 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.; Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.
Iran summons Dutch envoy over Koran film (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:12:18 GMT
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador on Sunday in protest at an "insulting and anti-Islamic" film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, state media said.
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Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
Peter Farquharson
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
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Botswana: Mogae's Quotable Quotes (AllAfrica.com)
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:35:23 GMT
An American scholar once remarked that when it comes to "presidential timber", it is painfully obvious that presidents do not all come from the same trees. Some are carved from redwoods, others from sturdy oaks, and then there are those whose origins may well have been milkweeds or hydrangea bushes.
Advertisement starts (Tiscali)
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:09:40 GMT
-- an Arabic term sometimes translated as "strife" -- intersperses images of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran, Islam’s holy book.
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $19.336 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:11:29 GMT
The Canadian Press March 27, 2008 - 1:56 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $19.336 oz., $621.65 kg.; Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.
Iran summons Dutch envoy over Koran film (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:12:18 GMT
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador on Sunday in protest at an "insulting and anti-Islamic" film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, state media said.
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Quotations for Today
Edward W. Howe
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Jacob Chanowski
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Phyllis Chesler
If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.
Author Unknown
To save time is to lengthen life.
Euripides
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Ursula K. LeGuin
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Unknown
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
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Edward W. Howe
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Jacob Chanowski
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Phyllis Chesler
If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.
Author Unknown
To save time is to lengthen life.
Euripides
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Ursula K. LeGuin
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Unknown
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
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Latest greatest Quotations
Thomas Hobbes
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Saint Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Charles Peguy
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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Aide to Iraq's Sadr: "No handover of arms" (AlertNet)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:44:39 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes) NAJAF, Iraq, March 30 (Reuters) - Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will not hand over their weapons as part of a move to end a week of fighting in Iraq, a top Sadr aide ...
FACTBOX - Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.
Election day: In quotes (BBC News)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:17:20 GMT
What some of the key players have been saying on election day in Zimbabwe.
FACTBOX: Quotes from "Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:07:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Dith Pran, whose ordeal at the hands of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime was depicted in the movie "The Killing Fields," became a crusader for the restoration of his homeland.
Iran summons Dutch envoy over Koran film (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:12:18 GMT
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador on Sunday in protest at an "insulting and anti-Islamic" film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, state media said.
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Today's Quotations:
Thomas Hobbes
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Saint Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Charles Peguy
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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Aide to Iraq's Sadr: "No handover of arms" (AlertNet)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:44:39 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes) NAJAF, Iraq, March 30 (Reuters) - Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will not hand over their weapons as part of a move to end a week of fighting in Iraq, a top Sadr aide ...
FACTBOX - Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.
Election day: In quotes (BBC News)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:17:20 GMT
What some of the key players have been saying on election day in Zimbabwe.
FACTBOX: Quotes from "Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:07:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Dith Pran, whose ordeal at the hands of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime was depicted in the movie "The Killing Fields," became a crusader for the restoration of his homeland.
Iran summons Dutch envoy over Koran film (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:12:18 GMT
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador on Sunday in protest at an "insulting and anti-Islamic" film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, state media said.
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Danish proverb
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time.
C. P. Snow
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
Eric Sevareid
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
As soon as there is life there is danger.
A. J. Ayer, Humanist Outlook
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.215 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:11:21 GMT
The Canadian Press March 26, 2008 - 12:59 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.; Tuesday $18.641 oz., $599.31 kg.
p0802 BC-CentcomChief 4thLd-Writethru 03-28 0977 (Hays Daily News)
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:34:24 GMT
Eds: UPDATES with more complete Dempsey and Fallon quotations; EDITS to trim.
FACTBOX - Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.
FACTBOX-Quotes from 'Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran (AlertNet)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:13:58 GMT
Source: Reuters March 30 (Reuters) - Dith Pran, whose ordeal at the hands of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime was depicted in the movie "The Killing Fields," became a crusader for the restoration of his ...
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Quotations:
Danish proverb
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time.
C. P. Snow
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
Eric Sevareid
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
As soon as there is life there is danger.
A. J. Ayer, Humanist Outlook
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.215 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:11:21 GMT
The Canadian Press March 26, 2008 - 12:59 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.; Tuesday $18.641 oz., $599.31 kg.
p0802 BC-CentcomChief 4thLd-Writethru 03-28 0977 (Hays Daily News)
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:34:24 GMT
Eds: UPDATES with more complete Dempsey and Fallon quotations; EDITS to trim.
FACTBOX - Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.
FACTBOX-Quotes from 'Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran (AlertNet)
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:13:58 GMT
Source: Reuters March 30 (Reuters) - Dith Pran, whose ordeal at the hands of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime was depicted in the movie "The Killing Fields," became a crusader for the restoration of his ...
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