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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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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 NewsWed, 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.
More QuotesSite Presented By - SalonThu, 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 NewsThu, 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.
More QuotationsPriests for Life Shows Congress the Horror of Abortion - Catholic OnlineWed, 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) - ReutersWed, 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 CriticsWed, 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 MailWed, 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.
More QuotationsInterbank Hryvnia Rate Down By 3 Kopecks To 5.04 UAH/USD - Ukrainian NewsTue, 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 TelegraphWed, 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 AgencyTue, 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.
More QuotesDidn't we see this show last week? - Indianapolis StarWed, 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 JournalWed, 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.comTue, 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.comWed, 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 ...