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Monday, April 28, 2008
Great Quotations
Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Dazed and Confused
Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
Chinese proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Steven Wright
The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go.
Thomas Carlyle
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Black Hawk
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
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F1: Spain Sunday quotes: BMW (autosport.com)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:41:16 GMT
Spain Sunday quotes: BMW
Forgotten slaves of America's past - International Herald Tribune
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:22:00 GMT
White Cargo The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America By Don Jordan and Michael Walsh Illustrated. 320 pages. Paper, $18.95. New York University Press. Every ...
TFN NEWS BRIEFING: TMT highlights to 09:10 BST - Forbes
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:36:00 GMT
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Check out these Quotations:
Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Dazed and Confused
Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
Chinese proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Steven Wright
The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go.
Thomas Carlyle
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Black Hawk
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
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F1: Spain Sunday quotes: BMW (autosport.com)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:41:16 GMT
Spain Sunday quotes: BMW
Forgotten slaves of America's past - International Herald Tribune
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:22:00 GMT
White Cargo The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America By Don Jordan and Michael Walsh Illustrated. 320 pages. Paper, $18.95. New York University Press. Every ...
TFN NEWS BRIEFING: TMT highlights to 09:10 BST - Forbes
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:36:00 GMT
Neither the Subscriber nor Thomson Financial News warrants the completeness or accuracy of the Service or the suitability of the Service as a trading aid and neither accepts any ...
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Famous Quotations Update
William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.
Albert Einstein
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Madam Guizot
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Barnard Elliot Bee
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
Colonel William Prescott
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Janet Jackson
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Cicero
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
All appears to change when we change.
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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.763 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:44:03 GMT
The Canadian Press April 24, 2008 - 2:35 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.763 oz., $571.08 kg.; Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $18.296 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:58:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 23, 2008 - 12:40 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.; Tuesday $18.607 oz., $598.22 kg.
Ombudsman grounds six aeronautics officers (Manila Standard Today)
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:47:33 GMT
SIX officials of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics, including its president, were suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman after it found irregularities, including the conduct of two biddings in a single day, in its canvass for the overhaul of an airplane engine in 2005.
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Today's Famous Quotations:
William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.
Albert Einstein
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Madam Guizot
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Barnard Elliot Bee
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
Colonel William Prescott
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Janet Jackson
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Cicero
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
All appears to change when we change.
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Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.763 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:44:03 GMT
The Canadian Press April 24, 2008 - 2:35 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.763 oz., $571.08 kg.; Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $18.296 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:58:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 23, 2008 - 12:40 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.; Tuesday $18.607 oz., $598.22 kg.
Ombudsman grounds six aeronautics officers (Manila Standard Today)
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:47:33 GMT
SIX officials of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics, including its president, were suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman after it found irregularities, including the conduct of two biddings in a single day, in its canvass for the overhaul of an airplane engine in 2005.
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Daily Quotations
Paul Beatty
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Made
Ricky Max, ah, one more thing, ah ... who am I dropping this off to Who gets their hands on this Max That's your per diem. Ricky Yeah, that's my per diem, and who do I give it to Who do I drop it off to
Mignon McLaughlin
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Juvenal
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
Alfred Tennyson
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for death.
Leonard Bernstein
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Samuel Butler
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Ruth Westheimer
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
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Economic Prognosis - Kommersant
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:07:00 GMT
The global stock market crisis was the main event in January which also affected Russia. On January 21, Russia’s benchmark RTS , which surged above 2,300 points in mid-January ...
F1: Spain Sunday quotes: Red Bull (autosport.com)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:26 GMT
Spain Sunday quotes: Red Bull
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:47:58 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.April 24 April 23Difference New York Dow Jones 12,827.0512,763.22(+63.83) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,422.61 2,405.21(+17.40) TokyoNikkei13,540.8713,579.16(-38.29) Sy...
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:33:18 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,091.40(+ 40.70)(+ 0.67 %)...
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Here are the Quotations ...
Paul Beatty
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Made
Ricky Max, ah, one more thing, ah ... who am I dropping this off to Who gets their hands on this Max That's your per diem. Ricky Yeah, that's my per diem, and who do I give it to Who do I drop it off to
Mignon McLaughlin
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Juvenal
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
Alfred Tennyson
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for death.
Leonard Bernstein
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Samuel Butler
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Ruth Westheimer
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
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Economic Prognosis - Kommersant
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:07:00 GMT
The global stock market crisis was the main event in January which also affected Russia. On January 21, Russia’s benchmark RTS , which surged above 2,300 points in mid-January ...
F1: Spain Sunday quotes: Red Bull (autosport.com)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:11:26 GMT
Spain Sunday quotes: Red Bull
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:47:58 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.April 24 April 23Difference New York Dow Jones 12,827.0512,763.22(+63.83) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,422.61 2,405.21(+17.40) TokyoNikkei13,540.8713,579.16(-38.29) Sy...
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:33:18 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,091.40(+ 40.70)(+ 0.67 %)...
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More Famous Quotes
Yiddish Proverb
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Cicero, De Amicitia
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Hesiod
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Alexander Pope
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Craig Claiborne
For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
C. C. Colton
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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F1: Spain Saturday quotes: Honda (autosport.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:11:36 GMT
Spain Saturday quotes: Honda
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:33:18 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,091.40(+ 40.70)(+ 0.67 %)...
Regulator presses Bank of Ireland on laptop theft - Financial Times
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:43:00 GMT
Bank of Ireland is under pressure from the Irish regulator and the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to explain how it took more than eight months to inform the ...
Rules, tips, tournaments, quotations (Carteret County News-Times)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:13:19 GMT
Joe Btfsplk’s tee shot comes to rest left of the fairway on the side of a steep hill. When he arrives at his ball he sees that it is lying right in the middle of a fire ant mound. Joe gets free relief from the fire ants and proceeds to take his drop on the side of the hill.
F1: Spain Saturday quotes: Toro Rosso (autosport.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:27:10 GMT
Spain Saturday quotes: Toro Rosso
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Straight to the Famous Quotes ...
Yiddish Proverb
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Cicero, De Amicitia
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Hesiod
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Alexander Pope
In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Craig Claiborne
For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
C. C. Colton
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Quotations
F1: Spain Saturday quotes: Honda (autosport.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:11:36 GMT
Spain Saturday quotes: Honda
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:33:18 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,091.40(+ 40.70)(+ 0.67 %)...
Regulator presses Bank of Ireland on laptop theft - Financial Times
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:43:00 GMT
Bank of Ireland is under pressure from the Irish regulator and the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to explain how it took more than eight months to inform the ...
Rules, tips, tournaments, quotations (Carteret County News-Times)
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:13:19 GMT
Joe Btfsplk’s tee shot comes to rest left of the fairway on the side of a steep hill. When he arrives at his ball he sees that it is lying right in the middle of a fire ant mound. Joe gets free relief from the fire ants and proceeds to take his drop on the side of the hill.
F1: Spain Saturday quotes: Toro Rosso (autosport.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:27:10 GMT
Spain Saturday quotes: Toro Rosso
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Latest greatest Quotations
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Charles Buxton
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Cato the Elder
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Bolivian Proverb
A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
Eudora Welty
When you see yourself in proportion -- as you're bound to do when you get some sense -- then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down.
Dogen
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Joseph Conrad
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Harry S Truman
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.
Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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F1: Spain Saturday quotes: Bridgestone (autosport.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:41:26 GMT
Spain Saturday quotes: Bridgestone
Nationals report: Notes, quotes - CBS Sportsline
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:22:00 GMT
--LF Elijah Dukes will begin a rehab assignment at Class A Potomac (Woodbridge, Va.) on Saturday to test his strained right hamstring before coming back to the Nationals . Dukes ...
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Here are the Quotations ...
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Charles Buxton
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Cato the Elder
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Bolivian Proverb
A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
Eudora Welty
When you see yourself in proportion -- as you're bound to do when you get some sense -- then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down.
Dogen
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Joseph Conrad
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Harry S Truman
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.
Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
More Quotes
F1: Spain Saturday quotes: Bridgestone (autosport.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:41:26 GMT
Spain Saturday quotes: Bridgestone
Nationals report: Notes, quotes - CBS Sportsline
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:22:00 GMT
--LF Elijah Dukes will begin a rehab assignment at Class A Potomac (Woodbridge, Va.) on Saturday to test his strained right hamstring before coming back to the Nationals . Dukes ...
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