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Honore de Balzac
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Coco Chanel
Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
William Penn
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
H. Jackson Jr. Brown
Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.
Johann von Goethe
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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NEWS - Japan warns economy may contract in fiscal 2009/10 - Paulson: regaining of U.S. economic health to take time - Barclay's Bank slashing executive bonuses - Japan's biggest ...
India FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 Mths Commercial Paper Benchmark 13.5000% - Reuters IndiaTue, 18 Nov 2008 07:26:00 GMT
Nov 18 Tuesday (Reuters) - The FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 mths Commercial Paper Benchmark is 13.5000% compared with 13.4875% on Monday 17 Nov TENORS BENCHMARK ----- ----- 1 Month 11 ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsnTue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Oil fell back towards $54 a barrel on Tuesday, setting a new near 22-month low as the gloomy outlook for the world economy helped extinguish a brief ...
Ahmad Jamal - City PagesTue, 18 Nov 2008 06:15:00 GMT
Influential jazz piano icon Ahmad Jamal continues showing off his impeccable technique and exploring fresh facets of his inimitable style on his latest recording, It's Magic ...
Quotations worth repeating - Logan BannerMon, 17 Nov 2008 23:27:00 GMT
(Editor's Note - The following article has been previously published in The Logan Banner.) I have a bad habit of every time I see a quotation or saying that I think is worth ...
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Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909�14, p.1)
...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Cervantes
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
Franklin P. Jones
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Sir Winston Churchill
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender.
More QuotationsAkbank says targets unchanged, staff levels up - Guardian UnlimitedTue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:00 GMT
* Follows media reports that it had cut 1,000 staff * Says current employee total up 12.3 percent on last year * Reiterates 2008 loan growth around 31 percent * Stock down 3.5 ...
City School District's disciplinary code borrows too liberally - Democrat and ChronicleTue, 18 Nov 2008 07:55:00 GMT
The City School District, in the way it "compiled" its new and much-needed code of discipline, has sent the wrong message to students all too used to taking language from the Web ...
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Proverbs 12:19, The Bible
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
Plato
He was a wise man who invented God.
Alice Walker
In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.
Elias Canetti
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
More QuotationsAkbank says targets unchanged, staff levels up - Guardian UnlimitedTue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:00 GMT
* Follows media reports that it had cut 1,000 staff * Says current employee total up 12.3 percent on last year * Reiterates 2008 loan growth around 31 percent * Stock down 3.5 ...
StatoilHydro says awarded two Canadian licences - ForbesTue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
OSLO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil and gas group StatoilHydro said on Tuesday it had been awarded an interest in two exploration licences offshore Canada. The company will ...
Son's snake bite serves as lesson and reminder - St. Petersburg TimesMon, 17 Nov 2008 23:19:00 GMT
Our son Jacob was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. Given that we live in the midst of the Brooker Creek Preserve, surrounded by beauty and wildlife, this could have happened just ...
Akbank says targets unchanged, staff levels up - Guardian UnlimitedTue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:00 GMT
* Follows media reports that it had cut 1,000 staff * Says current employee total up 12.3 percent on last year * Reiterates 2008 loan growth around 31 percent * Stock down 3.5 ...
Canadian dollar opens at 81.03 cents US, down 0.57 of a cent - Canada EastMon, 17 Nov 2008 12:57:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 81.03 cents US this morning, down 0.57 of a cent from Friday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at C$1.2341 cents, up 0.86 of a cent. Pound ...
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Georges Clemenceau
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Jim Samuels
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
Ronald Reagan
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Eric Anderson
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
Charles Dickens
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
Mentat Prayer
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.
Margot Asquith
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
More QuotationsOshiomhole vows to make Edo leaders in Sports - VanguardMon, 17 Nov 2008 23:27:00 GMT
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said weekend in Benin that the Bendel Insurance Football Club would be repositioned and adequately funded to enable it return to its ...
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Reading Films - Egypt TodayMon, 17 Nov 2008 18:19:00 GMT
Reading movie magazines may be my greatest vice — a habit as hard to kick as smoking. But how can I resist? They carry interesting interviews with actors, actresses and ...
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Lao Tzu
It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Douglas Noel Adams
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
Robert Pirsig
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
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.
Victor Hugo
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
More QuotationsThomson Financial News - ForbesTue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Reuters 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly ...
Akbank says targets unchanged, staff levels up - Guardian UnlimitedTue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:00 GMT
* Follows media reports that it had cut 1,000 staff * Says current employee total up 12.3 percent on last year * Reiterates 2008 loan growth around 31 percent * Stock down 3.5 ...
Boxing: Team Manny Pacquiao disses Oscar De La Hoya: And its Funny! - Doghouseboxing.comTue, 18 Nov 2008 09:28:00 GMT
Things just keep heating up as December 6th, the fight date for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao quickly approaches. The hype leading up to the fight has been amazing, and both ...
India FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 Mths Commercial Paper Benchmark 13.5000% - Reuters IndiaTue, 18 Nov 2008 07:26:00 GMT
Nov 18 Tuesday (Reuters) - The FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 mths Commercial Paper Benchmark is 13.5000% compared with 13.4875% on Monday 17 Nov TENORS BENCHMARK ----- ----- 1 Month 11 ...
Reading Films - Egypt TodayMon, 17 Nov 2008 18:19:00 GMT
Reading movie magazines may be my greatest vice — a habit as hard to kick as smoking. But how can I resist? They carry interesting interviews with actors, actresses and ...
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Britney Spears
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
Stuart Stevens
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
John C. Maxwell
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Charles Dickens
'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'
Albert Camus
You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.
George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
William Feather
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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India FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 Mths Commercial Paper Benchmark 13.5000% - Reuters IndiaTue, 18 Nov 2008 07:26:00 GMT
Nov 18 Tuesday (Reuters) - The FIMMDA-REUTERS 3 mths Commercial Paper Benchmark is 13.5000% compared with 13.4875% on Monday 17 Nov TENORS BENCHMARK ----- ----- 1 Month 11 ...
Gordon Murray Awarded 'Idea of the Year' - Newsblaze.comMon, 17 Nov 2008 23:55:00 GMT
MENLO PARK, Calif. andLondon, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Automotive icon Gordon Murray , who headed up the design of supercars such as the McLaren F1 and the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren ...