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Douglas Hurd
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
Rainer Maria Rilke
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Frank Moore Colby
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
Christopher Morley
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Lucille Ball
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
W. Clement Stone
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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Basketball roots of Notre Dame’s Palladino spread wide and deep - New Haven RegisterTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:00 GMT
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Homer, The Odyssey
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Earl of Roscommon
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Andrew Schneider
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More QuotationsElsevier Introduces The American Journal of Medicine Blog - EarthtimesTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:42:00 GMT
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Sarah Palin and impersonator Tina Fey top list of 2008's best ... - New York Daily NewsMon, 15 Dec 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live." The funniest thing Sarah Palin never said is number one on Yale 's top 10 list of quotes uttered in 2008. Palin impersonator Tina ...
Basketball roots of Notre Dame’s Palladino spread wide and deep - New Haven RegisterTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:00 GMT
WEST HAVEN — There they all stood, three basketball coaches, all with their own teams to go back to, yet still sticking around to watch their former mentor run a preseason ...
Sarah Palin and impersonator Tina Fey top list of 2008's best ... - New York Daily NewsMon, 15 Dec 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live." The funniest thing Sarah Palin never said is number one on Yale 's top 10 list of quotes uttered in 2008. Palin impersonator Tina ...
CNN.com Touts Liberal List - News BustersTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:06:00 GMT
In an article posted on CNN.com's Political Ticker associate producer Martina Stewart touted the top ten quote list from this year's edition of "Yale Book of Quotations". The only ...
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Rodan of Alexandria
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
One must desire something to be alive.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
Underpromise; overdeliver.
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RPT-YEARENDER-Sports quotes of 2008 - Reuters UKTue, 16 Dec 2008 09:52:00 GMT
"With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination" -- U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps after winning an unprecedented eight gold medals at a single Games ...
Scarlett Johansson may sue UK Cosmpolitan over 'fabricated interview' - Daily TelegraphTue, 16 Dec 2008 07:36:00 GMT
Scarlett Johansson has threatened to sue UK Cosmopolitan magazine for allegedly fabricating an interview which contained quotes about her marriage to actor Ryan Reynolds that ...
Canadian dollar closed at 81.19 cents US, up 1.27 cents - Canada EastMon, 15 Dec 2008 21:20:00 GMT
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Insure.com Unveils the Most and Least Expensive Popular Cars to Insure ... - Yahoo FinanceTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:21:00 GMT
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Jules Renard
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Nozick
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Jeremy Taylor
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
Miguel de Cervantes
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.
Dee Wallace Stone
We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes down to changing a thought such as 'Why did this happen to me' into 'There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.'
Democritus
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.
William Shakespeare
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
More QuotationsElsevier Introduces The American Journal of Medicine Blog - EarthtimesTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:42:00 GMT
The American Journal of Medicine (AJM), one of Elsevier's flagship health sciences journals, has introduced the American Journal of Medicine blog ( http://amjmed.blogspot.com ), a ...
Basketball roots of Notre Dame’s Palladino spread wide and deep - New Haven RegisterTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:00 GMT
WEST HAVEN — There they all stood, three basketball coaches, all with their own teams to go back to, yet still sticking around to watch their former mentor run a preseason ...
Palin tops list of memorable quotes - KTVAMon, 15 Dec 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Palin tops list of memorable quotes ... NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Sarah Palin lost the election, but she's a winner to a connoisseur of quotations at Yale.
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Charles Robert Darwin
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Logan Pearsall Smith
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
Successful education is always a two-way street.
More QuotesScarlett Johansson may sue UK Cosmpolitan over 'fabricated interview' - Daily TelegraphTue, 16 Dec 2008 07:36:00 GMT
Scarlett Johansson has threatened to sue UK Cosmopolitan magazine for allegedly fabricating an interview which contained quotes about her marriage to actor Ryan Reynolds that ...
Sarah Palin and impersonator Tina Fey top list of 2008's best ... - New York Daily NewsMon, 15 Dec 2008 19:40:00 GMT
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live." The funniest thing Sarah Palin never said is number one on Yale 's top 10 list of quotes uttered in 2008. Palin impersonator Tina ...
Dutch anti-Islam MP shrugs off terror fears - ONE NewsSun, 14 Dec 2008 21:07:00 GMT
Reuters Geert Wilders poses during a visit to promote his film - the 17-minute Fitna, which describes Islam as a fascist religion - in Jerusalem, Israel A right-wing Dutch ...
Basketball roots of Notre Dame’s Palladino spread wide and deep - New Haven RegisterTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:00 GMT
WEST HAVEN — There they all stood, three basketball coaches, all with their own teams to go back to, yet still sticking around to watch their former mentor run a preseason ...
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Mahatma Gandhi
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Dag Hammarskjld
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.
George Herbert
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Daisy Bates
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
James Joyce
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you.
William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
Honore' de Balzac
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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.
Doctor Who
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
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Editorial: Politically smart move - Jakarta PostTue, 16 Dec 2008 04:15:00 GMT
Given the parliamentary and presidential elections next year, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a politically smart move by further lowering the price of regular gasoline by ...