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Friday, April 25, 2008
Latest greatest Quotations
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
Hannah Arendt
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Plato, The Republic
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.
Hunter S. Thompson
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Nora Ephron
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Unknown
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.
James Reston
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Alfred E. Newman
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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Asia Naphtha-BPCL sells 1H low-aromatic; higher premium - Reuters India
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:11:00 GMT
SEOUL, April 25 (Reuters) - India's Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) sold 27,000 tonnes of low-aromatic naphtha at a premium of $5-$6 a tonne to Middle East quotes from Kochi, a ...
Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:49:00 GMT
On Thursday, the interbank hryvnia rate rose by 8 kopecks to 4.82 UAH/USD, after raising on Wednesday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading ...
Canadian dollar opens at 98.40 US, up 0.10 of a cent - Canada East
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:54:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 98.40 cents US this morning, up 0.10 of a cent from Wednesday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 101.63 cents Cdn, down 0.10 of a cent. Pound ...
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Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
Hannah Arendt
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Plato, The Republic
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.
Hunter S. Thompson
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Nora Ephron
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Unknown
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.
James Reston
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Alfred E. Newman
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
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Asia Naphtha-BPCL sells 1H low-aromatic; higher premium - Reuters India
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:11:00 GMT
SEOUL, April 25 (Reuters) - India's Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) sold 27,000 tonnes of low-aromatic naphtha at a premium of $5-$6 a tonne to Middle East quotes from Kochi, a ...
Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:49:00 GMT
On Thursday, the interbank hryvnia rate rose by 8 kopecks to 4.82 UAH/USD, after raising on Wednesday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading ...
Canadian dollar opens at 98.40 US, up 0.10 of a cent - Canada East
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:54:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 98.40 cents US this morning, up 0.10 of a cent from Wednesday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at 101.63 cents Cdn, down 0.10 of a cent. Pound ...
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Latest Famous Quotes
Wittgenstein
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Miguel de Cervantes
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
William James
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Aristophanes
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:00 GMT
"I am telling you frankly that the most important obstacle to the peace process and the negotiations is the continuation of the settlement activities. Therefore, I am calling on ...
CNET Networks and Yahoo! Announce Multi-Year Strategic Content ... - MSN MoneyCentral
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:44:00 GMT
-- CNET.com will become a major third-party provider of technology content on Yahoo! Tech and Yahoo! News, which will significantly add to its current offerings and ensure that ...
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Wittgenstein
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Miguel de Cervantes
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
William James
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Aristophanes
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:00 GMT
"I am telling you frankly that the most important obstacle to the peace process and the negotiations is the continuation of the settlement activities. Therefore, I am calling on ...
CNET Networks and Yahoo! Announce Multi-Year Strategic Content ... - MSN MoneyCentral
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:44:00 GMT
-- CNET.com will become a major third-party provider of technology content on Yahoo! Tech and Yahoo! News, which will significantly add to its current offerings and ensure that ...
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Daily Quotations
Yiddish Proverb
He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
H. L. Mencken
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.
William Feather
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you.
William James
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Sophocles, Electra
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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Actor Snipes gets three years prison for not filing taxes - Raw Story
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:07:00 GMT
A US federal judge on Thursday sentenced Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes to three years in prison Thursday for failing to file his tax returns from 1999 to 2004, the Department of ...
Indonesian shares lower in early trade ahead of April inflation data - Forbes
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:54:00 GMT
JAKARTA (Thomson Financial) - Indonesian shares were lower in early trade Friday on caution ahead of the release of April consumer inflation data due out later next week. The ...
We fear for our lives - pupils - Cape Times
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:38:00 GMT
More than 1 000 angry and scared pupils from Phindulwazi High in Lower Crossroads took to the streets yesterday to register their grievances with education authorities after yet ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:32:00 GMT
SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) - Gold rose on Friday on bargain hunting after it dropped to a three-week low, but gains may be limited with a firming dollar robbing the metal of ...
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Yiddish Proverb
He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
H. L. Mencken
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.
William Feather
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you.
William James
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Sophocles, Electra
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
More Quotes
Actor Snipes gets three years prison for not filing taxes - Raw Story
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:07:00 GMT
A US federal judge on Thursday sentenced Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes to three years in prison Thursday for failing to file his tax returns from 1999 to 2004, the Department of ...
Indonesian shares lower in early trade ahead of April inflation data - Forbes
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:54:00 GMT
JAKARTA (Thomson Financial) - Indonesian shares were lower in early trade Friday on caution ahead of the release of April consumer inflation data due out later next week. The ...
We fear for our lives - pupils - Cape Times
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:38:00 GMT
More than 1 000 angry and scared pupils from Phindulwazi High in Lower Crossroads took to the streets yesterday to register their grievances with education authorities after yet ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:32:00 GMT
SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) - Gold rose on Friday on bargain hunting after it dropped to a three-week low, but gains may be limited with a firming dollar robbing the metal of ...
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Today's Quotes
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.
Mother Theresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
H. H. Williams
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Unknown
Kisses blown are kisses wasted. Kisses aren't kisses unless they are tasted. Kisses spread germs and germs are hated. So kiss me baby I'm vaccinated.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Luis Cernada
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.
Hunter
He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.
Thomas Alva Edison
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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Kevin Pullein's Trendspotting - Guardian Unlimited
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:02:00 GMT
Value for money is most likely to be found in the betting markets that sound the most outlandish - such as the time of the first corner. In the major, result-related markets, there ...
Harvard Business School Publishes a Case Study on Robert Wessman and ... - Phramalive.com
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:21:00 GMT
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 24, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Actavis Group, the international generic pharmaceuticals company, today announced that has published a case study on the Company ...
Kevin Pullein's Trendspotting - Guardian Unlimited
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:02:00 GMT
Value for money is most likely to be found in the betting markets that sound the most outlandish - such as the time of the first corner. In the major, result-related markets, there ...
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.
Mother Theresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
H. H. Williams
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Unknown
Kisses blown are kisses wasted. Kisses aren't kisses unless they are tasted. Kisses spread germs and germs are hated. So kiss me baby I'm vaccinated.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Luis Cernada
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.
Hunter
He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.
Thomas Alva Edison
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
More Quotes
Kevin Pullein's Trendspotting - Guardian Unlimited
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:02:00 GMT
Value for money is most likely to be found in the betting markets that sound the most outlandish - such as the time of the first corner. In the major, result-related markets, there ...
Harvard Business School Publishes a Case Study on Robert Wessman and ... - Phramalive.com
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:21:00 GMT
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 24, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Actavis Group, the international generic pharmaceuticals company, today announced that has published a case study on the Company ...
Kevin Pullein's Trendspotting - Guardian Unlimited
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:02:00 GMT
Value for money is most likely to be found in the betting markets that sound the most outlandish - such as the time of the first corner. In the major, result-related markets, there ...
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Today's Famous Quotes
Jerome K. Jerome
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Ernest Hemingway
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Eugene F. Ware
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Stan Getz
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:39:03 GMT
"I am telling you frankly that the most important obstacle to the peace process and the negotiations is the continuation of the settlement activities.
Assen: Pre-race quotes - Motorsport.com
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT
As the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship arrives at the Assen TT Circuit in the Netherlands for round 4 of 14, all eyes were on the select group of riders invited to the ...
'Don't tase me, bro' inspires Clash rocker - News.com.au
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:52:00 GMT
Viral video inspires song by former Clash rocker Mick Jones Jones disgusted by disturbing clip of police tasering student Technology: Read more news and reviews in our tech section ...
Quotes from the Democratic candidates after Pennsylvania primary (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:38:21 GMT
Quotes from New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama after the Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday. "You know, the pundits questioned whether Pennsylvanians would trust me with this charge. And tonight you showed you do.
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Famous Quotes:
Jerome K. Jerome
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Ernest Hemingway
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Eugene F. Ware
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Stan Getz
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
More Quotations
Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:39:03 GMT
"I am telling you frankly that the most important obstacle to the peace process and the negotiations is the continuation of the settlement activities.
Assen: Pre-race quotes - Motorsport.com
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT
As the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship arrives at the Assen TT Circuit in the Netherlands for round 4 of 14, all eyes were on the select group of riders invited to the ...
'Don't tase me, bro' inspires Clash rocker - News.com.au
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:52:00 GMT
Viral video inspires song by former Clash rocker Mick Jones Jones disgusted by disturbing clip of police tasering student Technology: Read more news and reviews in our tech section ...
Quotes from the Democratic candidates after Pennsylvania primary (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:38:21 GMT
Quotes from New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama after the Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday. "You know, the pundits questioned whether Pennsylvanians would trust me with this charge. And tonight you showed you do.
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