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Bo Jackson
Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.
Philippians 13 NIV Bible
I thank my God everytime I remember you.
J. Russel Lynes
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Epictetus
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Jules Renard
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Horace
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Kahlil Gibran
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Adam Marshall
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
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Ball back in O'Keefe's court: Maxfield - Australian Football LeagueSun, 12 Oct 2008 00:03:00 GMT
SYDNEY Swans player personnel manager Stuart Maxfield says it's now up to premiership player Ryan O'Keefe to decide if he wants to remain in the harbour city. Maxfield, speaking at ...
Australia to guarantee bank deposits for three years-PM - ForbesSun, 12 Oct 2008 06:01:00 GMT
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Miguel de Cervantes
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
Horace
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Xenophon
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
John Viscount Morley
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
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Murder defendants press for new judge - Star-PressSat, 11 Oct 2008 07:07:00 GMT
PORTLAND -- Michael Buckner, father of murder victim Shawn Buckner, still can't fathom what drove five people to allegedly beat and stab his son to death. "This is along the same ...
US missile attack kills three in Pakistani region - ForbesSat, 11 Oct 2008 23:42:00 GMT
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Oct 11 (Reuters) - At least three people were killed in a missile attack by suspected U.S. drones in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan ...
Blues, Dons eye O'Keefe - Australian Football LeagueSun, 12 Oct 2008 00:10:00 GMT
CARLTON and Essendon are in the hunt to lure Sydney Swan Ryan O’Keefe as the out-of-contract forward assesses his options after failing to find a new home during AFL trade week ...
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Philip G. Hamerton
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author
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I know where we're going, I just don't know where that IS
Stephen Covey
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Ronald Reagan
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)
oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Case of Identity, 1892
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
Godfather, The
Tessio It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
Abraham Lincoln
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
George Bernard Shaw
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
More QuotesSay it ain’t so, Sarah - Williamsport Sun-GazetteSat, 11 Oct 2008 03:11:00 GMT
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GOP Attacks on American Voters Turn Desperate, Ugly and Dangerous - OpEdNews.comSat, 11 Oct 2008 19:31:00 GMT
The GOP assault on American voters has hit full stride as the economy and John McCain tank in synch. With just over three weeks until election day, the Republicans have mounted an ...
Rabbi asks Pope, synod leaders to speak out to defend Israel - NZ CatholicTue, 07 Oct 2008 00:16:00 GMT
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Israeli Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi of Haifa, asked Pope Benedict XVI and top Catholic leaders to continue learning to appreciate the Jewish ...
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Bob Hope
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Gustave Flaubert
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
Chinese Proverb
One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
C. S. Lewis, First things First
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye.
Steven Wright
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
Hermione Gingold
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
Shakespeare
Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
Alanis Morissette
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
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Berkeley offers workshops for residents interested in new solar ... - Inside Bay AreaSat, 11 Oct 2008 14:31:00 GMT
workshops for residents interested in new solar financing plan: The city of Berkeley is holding three workshops this month for property owners interested in learning more about a first-of-its-kind city program to help people with the cost of solar ...
Finland ex-president awarded Nobel Peace Prize - San Francisco GateSat, 11 Oct 2008 08:47:00 GMT
Former President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, who has worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for more than three decades, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. In its announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called ...
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Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Robert Anthony
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
American Proverb
Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
Francis Maitland Balfour
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.
Euripides
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
Robert Heinlein
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
H.L. Mencken
Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Paul S. Winalski
The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
Miguel De Cervantes
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Robert Fulghum
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Kahlil Gibran
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
Remy de Gourmont
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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Social-network builder Ning has deployed its support for developer applications for OpenSocial, something that it has been planning to do since Google kick-started the open-source project nearly a year ago. (It is now an independent organization .) A ...
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'As our ancestors hide in our DNA, so do their stories' - Guardian UnlimitedFri, 10 Oct 2008 23:50:00 GMT
Despite being the grandson of a betting man, Sebastian Barry would not have backed himself to be shortlisted for this year's Man Booker prize. His previous novel, A Long Long Way , was shortlisted in 2005 and his agent explained to him how rare it ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsnSat, 11 Oct 2008 03:11:00 GMT
"The G-7 agrees today that the current situation calls for urgent and exceptional action. We commit to continue working together to stabilize financial markets and restore the flow of credit, to support global economic growth." After the close of the ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Brian Weir
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Jeremy Collier
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Author Unknown
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Ethel Barrymore
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
La Rochefoucauld
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself
Janos Arnay
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
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"The G-7 agrees today that the current situation calls for urgent and exceptional action. We commit to continue working together to stabilize financial markets and restore the flow of credit, to support global economic growth." After the close of the ...
Say it ain’t so, Sarah - Williamsport Sun-GazetteSat, 11 Oct 2008 03:11:00 GMT
When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said, in her Vice-Presidential debate with Joe Biden, "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again," I was disappointed, former English teacher that I am, with the Governor's redundancy - using ...
Quotes on G-7 actions regarding meltdown - Miami HeraldSat, 11 Oct 2008 00:47:00 GMT
Selected quotes on actions taken by the Group of Seven major industrial countries on Friday to combat the worldwide financial crisis: "We finalized an aggressive action plan to address the turmoil in global financial markets and restore the health of ...