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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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TLC, Waterfalls
Don�t go chasin� waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you�re used to.
Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Henry Miller
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Eugene Paul Wigner
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Anon.
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
Chinese proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
James Joseph Sylvester
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
Alfred A. Montapert
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
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Foundation’s 3rd Annual Leadership Forum - Scoop
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:43:00 GMT
Asia New Zealand Foundation’s 3rd Annual Leadership Forum for Young Leaders Network The 2008 Young Leaders Forum is set to be a demanding and exciting week. After two successful ...
Africa Daily Press Briefing - Scoop
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:00 GMT
MR. MCCORMACK: I think DOD probably has a better handle on that. I’ve seen a lot of quotations from people related to the Fifth Fleet. They’re monitoring the situation very ...
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TLC, Waterfalls
Don�t go chasin� waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you�re used to.
Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Henry Miller
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Eugene Paul Wigner
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Anon.
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
Chinese proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
James Joseph Sylvester
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
Alfred A. Montapert
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
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Foundation’s 3rd Annual Leadership Forum - Scoop
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:43:00 GMT
Asia New Zealand Foundation’s 3rd Annual Leadership Forum for Young Leaders Network The 2008 Young Leaders Forum is set to be a demanding and exciting week. After two successful ...
Africa Daily Press Briefing - Scoop
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:00 GMT
MR. MCCORMACK: I think DOD probably has a better handle on that. I’ve seen a lot of quotations from people related to the Fifth Fleet. They’re monitoring the situation very ...
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Latest greatest Quotes
Bernard Baruch
I made my money by selling too soon.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Jack Lemmon
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Spike Milligan
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
Joan Crawford
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Gay Talese
The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Johann von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Eric Hoffer
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Johann von Goethe
The unnatural, that too is natural.
Francis Bacon
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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Wisdom About Government - Front Page
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:22:00 GMT
The Democrats will be running the White House, the House and the Senate soon. Before they make drastic changes, they may want to consider some interesting quotations on government ...
Britain's car theft black spots - Daily Telegraph
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:38:00 GMT
The price comparison site analysed information from 10m insurance quotations made over the past 10 months. It showed that motorists in the East Sussex village of Winchelsea are ...
Photos: The best of Google Labs - Silicon.com
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:26:00 GMT
Google Labs is where Google's latest tech innovations are made available to the public to test and provide feedback. Some of the apps become full Google products while others ...
Insure.com Offers Quick Ways to Save Money on Insurance - PR Newswire
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:52:00 GMT
DARIEN, Ill., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- While you're looking for ways to save money on food, clothing and other essentials, don't forget about cost-cutting on your ...
Quotes – Cleveland State - Stanford.scout.com
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:00 GMT
SEATTLE - Here are quotes from Lorenzo Romar, Jon Brockman, Isaiah Thomas and Justin Holiday, as the Washington Huskies tallied their first win of the season, a 78-63 triumph over ...
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Bernard Baruch
I made my money by selling too soon.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Jack Lemmon
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Spike Milligan
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
Joan Crawford
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Gay Talese
The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Johann von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Eric Hoffer
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Johann von Goethe
The unnatural, that too is natural.
Francis Bacon
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
More Quotes
Wisdom About Government - Front Page
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:22:00 GMT
The Democrats will be running the White House, the House and the Senate soon. Before they make drastic changes, they may want to consider some interesting quotations on government ...
Britain's car theft black spots - Daily Telegraph
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:38:00 GMT
The price comparison site analysed information from 10m insurance quotations made over the past 10 months. It showed that motorists in the East Sussex village of Winchelsea are ...
Photos: The best of Google Labs - Silicon.com
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:26:00 GMT
Google Labs is where Google's latest tech innovations are made available to the public to test and provide feedback. Some of the apps become full Google products while others ...
Insure.com Offers Quick Ways to Save Money on Insurance - PR Newswire
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:52:00 GMT
DARIEN, Ill., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- While you're looking for ways to save money on food, clothing and other essentials, don't forget about cost-cutting on your ...
Quotes – Cleveland State - Stanford.scout.com
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:36:00 GMT
SEATTLE - Here are quotes from Lorenzo Romar, Jon Brockman, Isaiah Thomas and Justin Holiday, as the Washington Huskies tallied their first win of the season, a 78-63 triumph over ...
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Daily Quotes
Robert Bloch
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Sir Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Ernest Thompson Seton
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
Erich Fromm
Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Britain's car theft black spots - Daily Telegraph
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:38:00 GMT
The price comparison site analysed information from 10m insurance quotations made over the past 10 months. It showed that motorists in the East Sussex village of Winchelsea are ...
Annual Message From the Chairman of ITEX Corporation - CNBC
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:28:00 GMT
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov 19, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- ITEX Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ITEX), The Membership Trading Community(SM), today released a letter from ...
Bin Laden Obama's No 1 target - New Zealand Herald
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:46:00 GMT
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama plans major changes in United States policy on the war in Afghanistan and intends to renew the commitment to hunt down Osama bin Laden ...
Africa Daily Press Briefing - Scoop
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:00 GMT
MR. MCCORMACK: I think DOD probably has a better handle on that. I’ve seen a lot of quotations from people related to the Fifth Fleet. They’re monitoring the situation very ...
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Today's Quotes:
Robert Bloch
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Sir Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Ernest Thompson Seton
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
Erich Fromm
Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
More Quotes
Britain's car theft black spots - Daily Telegraph
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:38:00 GMT
The price comparison site analysed information from 10m insurance quotations made over the past 10 months. It showed that motorists in the East Sussex village of Winchelsea are ...
Annual Message From the Chairman of ITEX Corporation - CNBC
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:28:00 GMT
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov 19, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- ITEX Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ITEX), The Membership Trading Community(SM), today released a letter from ...
Bin Laden Obama's No 1 target - New Zealand Herald
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:46:00 GMT
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama plans major changes in United States policy on the war in Afghanistan and intends to renew the commitment to hunt down Osama bin Laden ...
Africa Daily Press Briefing - Scoop
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:00 GMT
MR. MCCORMACK: I think DOD probably has a better handle on that. I’ve seen a lot of quotations from people related to the Fifth Fleet. They’re monitoring the situation very ...
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Today's Quotes
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Ronald Reagan
I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
George Orwell, 1984
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
Pindar
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Anastasio Somoza Garc�a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936-1956
Gold for friends,
Lead for foes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Dr. Robert Schuller
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
General Omar Bradley
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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TABLE-INDICATORS - Bosnia - Nov 19 - Forbes
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:23:00 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 ...
Annual Message From the Chairman of ITEX Corporation - CNBC
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:28:00 GMT
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov 19, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- ITEX Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ITEX), The Membership Trading Community(SM), today released a letter from ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:27:00 GMT
"I wouldn't wish what I'm going through on anyone, my worst enemy. I haven't had a night's sleep for almost four months.'' -- Republican Sen. Ted Stevens after losing the Senate ...
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Quotes:
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Ronald Reagan
I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
George Orwell, 1984
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
Pindar
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Anastasio Somoza Garc�a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936-1956
Gold for friends,
Lead for foes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Dr. Robert Schuller
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
General Omar Bradley
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
More Quotations
TABLE-INDICATORS - Bosnia - Nov 19 - Forbes
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:23:00 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 ...
Annual Message From the Chairman of ITEX Corporation - CNBC
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:28:00 GMT
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov 19, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- ITEX Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ITEX), The Membership Trading Community(SM), today released a letter from ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:27:00 GMT
"I wouldn't wish what I'm going through on anyone, my worst enemy. I haven't had a night's sleep for almost four months.'' -- Republican Sen. Ted Stevens after losing the Senate ...
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