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Today's Quotations:
Hippocrates
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin
I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
Nelson Boswell
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Count Oxenstierna
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Benjamin Cohen
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
Hippocrates, Law
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
James Bridie
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
Richard Milhous Nixon
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.
Golo Mann
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Carl Sagan
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Charles Caleb Colton
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Kaka staying at AC Milan - StuffMon, 19 Jan 2009 22:48:00 GMT
STAYING PUT: After much speculation backing a mega-deal to Macnhester City, star Brazilian striker Kaka has re-signed with AC Milan. Kaka is staying at AC Milan and will not move ...
Turkey - Factors to Watch on Jan 27 - FXStreet.comTue, 27 Jan 2009 06:53:00 GMT
ISTANBUL, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events that could affect Turkish financial markets on Tuesday. The lira was trading at 1.6270 against the ...
Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian NewsMon, 26 Jan 2009 10:58:00 GMT
The Russian Gazprom monopoly is concerned over criticism came from President Viktor Yuschenko's Secretariat about the gas supply deals for 2009-2019 signed between the Naftohaz ...
Quotes for Today
Quotes:
Izaak Walton
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Michael Konda
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Anatole France
Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Aprocrypha
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Helen Keller
We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.
More QuotesObama's inauguration celebrated - Daily TribuneMon, 26 Jan 2009 14:54:00 GMT
Matagorda County Teen Court held an inaugural gala in the Hardeman Park Teen Center Tuesday, Jan. 20, to celebrate the swearing in of Barack Obama as the first African American ...
Italian Stocks - Factors to watch on Jan 27 - ForbesTue, 27 Jan 2009 05:13:00 GMT
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Stock & fund quotes - ninemsnTue, 27 Jan 2009 03:40:00 GMT
SYDNEY, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Spot gold was little changed on Tuesday at just above $900 an ounce as traders took a break from a three-day rally to the highest level in more than ...
Irish writers invited to join class action deal with Google - IndependentMon, 26 Jan 2009 17:46:00 GMT
IRISH authors may be entitled to cash windfalls if they are covered by a settlement reached with Google after a class action case taken in the US. Although the case was taken by ...
The Stars Our Destination - School Library JournalMon, 26 Jan 2009 19:55:00 GMT
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first look at the night sky through a telescope and the publication of Kepler’s revolutionary New Astronomy , the ...
Great Quotations
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Eugene Debs
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Anatole France
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Jane Austen
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Danish proverb
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
Seneca
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Robert Hutchins
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
More QuotationsGeorge Clooney joins his dad to talk journalism - Napa Valley RegisterTue, 27 Jan 2009 06:39:00 GMT
WASHINGTON - George Clooney traded jokes with his father, veteran journalist Nick Clooney, before a screening Monday night of the actor's 2005 film "Good Night and Good Luck." The ...
Canadian dollar closed at 81.69 cents US, up 0.47 of a cent - Canada EastMon, 26 Jan 2009 21:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 81.69 cents US, up 0.47 of a cent on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 122.41 cents Canadian, down 0.71 of a cent. Pound sterling closed C$1 ...
Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian NewsMon, 26 Jan 2009 10:58:00 GMT
The Russian Gazprom monopoly is concerned over criticism came from President Viktor Yuschenko's Secretariat about the gas supply deals for 2009-2019 signed between the Naftohaz ...
Kaka staying at AC Milan - StuffMon, 19 Jan 2009 22:48:00 GMT
STAYING PUT: After much speculation backing a mega-deal to Macnhester City, star Brazilian striker Kaka has re-signed with AC Milan. Kaka is staying at AC Milan and will not move ...
Famous Quotations for Today
Straight to the Famous Quotations ...
Muhammad Ali
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Danish proverb
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is money.
Robert J. Ringer
Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
Phillips Brooks
The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
Horace, Epistles
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
More QuotesClergy Unite On Health Care - Hartford CourantTue, 27 Jan 2009 04:52:00 GMT
A few years ago, the people behind what would become the Meriden -based Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut were casting about for ways to change the state's broken health-care system. By the foundation's count, some 325,000 people lack ...
NORDIC STOCKS - Factors to watch on Jan 27 - ForbesTue, 27 Jan 2009 06:17:00 GMT
** For the western European company diary covering earnings, shareholder meetings, news conferences and analysts' meetings, click on or type in the code and hit the f9 button. ** Double click on for Swedish indices, for Danish indices, for Finnish ...
2 condemned to death for role in China milk crisis - AOLThu, 22 Jan 2009 19:59:00 GMT
SHIJIAZHUANG, China -A Chinese court sentenced two men to death and a dairy boss to life in prison Thursday for their roles in producing and selling infant formula tainted with melamine, a deadly industrial chemical added to watered-down milk in ...
Answering Your Blegs for a Change - New York Times BlogsThu, 22 Jan 2009 11:31:00 GMT
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro , editor of The Yale Book of Quotations , is back, but this time he answers your quotation blegs. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have anything to do with quotations — send it along here ...
DIARY - Germany - to February 26 - ForbesTue, 27 Jan 2009 06:17:00 GMT
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