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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Turkish Proverb


A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

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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He Read, She Read: A Lover Of Words Spends A Year In Dictionary ... - Daily News-Record

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:05:00 GMT
Shortly after Richard and I began writing "He Read, She Read" for the Daily News-Record, I chose to review a book by Simon Winchester called "The Meaning of Everything: The Story ...

Interbank Hryvnia Rate Down By 2 Kopecks To 5.06 UAH/USD - Ukrainian News

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:17:00 GMT
On Wednesday, the interbank hryvnia rate fell by 2 kopecks to 5.06 UAH/USD, after an decrease on Tuesday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading ...

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Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

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.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

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.

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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:45:00 GMT
John McCain didn't wait for the joint statement his camp was working on with Barack Obama's to come out before he announced that he's suspending his campaign to work on a bailout plan. And Obama sounded decidedly less than happy about that when he ...

Moak signs solar deal; Triton stalls - Newburyport Daily News

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:15:00 GMT
NEWBURY — Triton Regional School District has again put off signing a 20-year solar power purchase contract with EyeOn Energy of Colorado, stating at a special meeting last night it's still conducting a due diligence investigation of the deal ...

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William Hamilton


It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

Epictetus


The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Andy Warhol


The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Author Unknown


Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Romanian Proverb


One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

Elbert Hubbard


The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.

Lonny Starr


No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would

Voltaire


It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.

Lawrence Peter Berra


It's like deja vu all over again.

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Priests for Life Shows Congress the Horror of Abortion - Catholic Online

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:27:00 GMT
The campaign explained via medical diagrams and abortionist quotations the true nature of the abortion procedure. WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. Frank Pavone led a team ...

(Adds background, quotes) - Reuters

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:00:00 GMT
BEIJING, Sept 24 (Reuters) - China and Venezuela have agreed to double a joint investment fund to $12 billion, President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday, lauding the socialist ...

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Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05


Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.

Albert Einstein


I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Chinese Proverb


A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Hubert Humphrey


The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting


The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)


I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations - Monsters and Critics

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:00:00 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: #> DAX 6,052.87 (- 15.66) MDAX 7,395.74 (- 29.47) Adidas 39.39 (+ 0.44) Allianz 100.55 (+ 0.31 ...

When fear sets in, I consult the Three Wise Men - Globe and Mail

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:13:00 GMT
In turbulent times like these, it helps to have someone to lean on. Someone older, wiser and more experienced in investing matters. Someone like Lowell Miller, for example. Lowell who? Maybe you've never heard of him, but when the market is ...

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Thomas Carlyle


Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Meryl Streep


Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Anon.


Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.

Japanese Proverb


The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Bruce Lee


As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization.

Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant


There is only one way to hurt someone who has lost everything -- give him back something broken.

Buddy Hackett


Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.

Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent


No other road, no other way, no day but today.

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Interbank Hryvnia Rate Down By 3 Kopecks To 5.04 UAH/USD - Ukrainian News

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:13:00 GMT
On Tuesday, the interbank hryvnia rate fell by 3 kopecks to 5.04 UAH/USD, after an increase on Monday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading ...

Dress to impress — who? - Belfast Telegraph

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:26:00 GMT
When I first read the letter from Concerned Christian (Write Back, September 18), I wondered if it was a joke. Then I remembered that this is Northern Ireland, where some dinosaurs ...

Russian Eurobond prices slide, spread widens significantly (Part 2) - Interfax Information Agency

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:26:00 GMT
MOSCOW. Sept 23 (Interfax) - Russian sovereign Eurobond prices plummeted and yields fell markedly in a wave of aggressive selling on Tuesday as the flight to quality resumed. By 5 ...

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Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)


Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Frederic Bastait, Letters to the Economist March 5, 2005


The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Washington Irving


Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney


Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Muhammad Ali


It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up.

Josef Stalin


One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Groucho Marx


Women should be obscene and not heard.

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Didn't we see this show last week? - Indianapolis Star

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:47:00 GMT
JASPER, Ind. The sound of rapid gunfire could be heard a few minutes before Tuesday's gubernatorial debate at an arts center here in Southern Indiana. "There's a gun club over ...

A home for wrestlers - Idaho State Journal

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:23:00 GMT
POCATELLO -- Tallen Bannister earned his Eagle Scout badge this summer by completing an extensive project that gave Highland High School's wrestlers a place to call home. Bannister ...

Russian Trading System Launches RTS Global - HULIQ.com

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:47:00 GMT
OJSC "Russian Trading System" Stock Exchange launches a unique project called RTS Global. RTS Global is a regulated OTC market for foreign securities. RTS Global enables Russian ...

The perks of sharing a name - Thaindian.com

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:51:00 GMT
London, Sep 24 (IANS) Former Destiny Child singer Michelle Williams enjoys the perks of sharing her name with actress Michelle Williams.Contactmusic.com quotes singer Williams as ...

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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ... Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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