Quotes:

Albert Einstein


Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Loren


The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

Terence


Nothing is said that has not been said before.

H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920


There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.

George Bernard Shaw


The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Mother Theresa


One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

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Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532


There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women


Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Lucille Ball


Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Karl R. Popper


The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

Steven Wright


If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it

Lewis Carroll


'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'

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Palestinians: Israeli Airstrike Kills 3 Militants in Gaza (Voice of America)

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:00:10 GMT
Palestinian medical workers say an Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City has killed three militants from the Islamic Jihad group. The Associated Press quotes Islamic Jihad as saying one of its senior commanders was among those killed in Monday's attack.

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Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:22:44 GMT
Perform complex activities related to the maintenance of records and required reports and prepare, special reports. Respond to and/or prepare quotations from verbal or written inquiries both externally or internally.

USDA Chicago Terminal Grain - Dec 17 (INO News)

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:13:56 GMT
GX_GR110 Springfield, IL Mon, Dec 17, 2007 USDA-IL Market News Chicago terminal grain report To Arrive Truck and Rail Bids for Grain Delivered to Chicago. The following quotations represent Bids ($/ bu) from Terminal Elevators, Processors, Mills, and Merchandisers after 1:30 p.m. today.

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H. L. Mencken


It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Lester Bowles Pearson


This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)

Francois De La Rochefoucauld


Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

John Updike


Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

Jefferson Davis


Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty.

Edmund Burke


The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

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TEAM REPORTS (DAYTONA, FLA.) - Patrick Sheltra ARCA Daytona Pre-Season Testing Sunday Notes & Quotes (The Auto Channel)

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:34:27 GMT
Sophomore-bound Sheltra Motorsports participated in the final day of an extensive three day test at the legendary Daytona International Speedway (DIS) in preparation for ARCA's 56 season of competition beginning with the familiar ARCA 200 at Daytona set for Saturday, February 9. For the second consecutive day, showers and heavy thunderstorms doused the 2.5-mile speedway postponing practice for ...

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $14.813 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:54:30 GMT
The Canadian Press December 13, 2007 - 12:39 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $14.813 oz., $476.24 kg.; Wednesday $15.376 oz., $494.34 kg.

Having a cracking time at Christmas

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:14:00 GMT
BBC Business - Versions during these years contained Shakespearean-themed hats and quotations inspired by Oscar Wilde. Others celebrated royal tours, exhibitions, imperial triumphs, Egyptian digs and the Suffragette movement. More recently, those interested in the ...

Bush's pool boy meets the San Jose tooth fairy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:24:00 GMT
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Miguel de Cervantes


The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)


Even the longest hours come to an end.

Bertolt Brecht


Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.


You have to let people challenge your ideas.

Sarah Orne Jewett


'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963


The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Johnson


Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Jack Youngblood


I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.

Clive Staples Lewis


Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich


The obvious is always least understood

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Adwatch: Obama As Candidate of Change

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:15:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - Superimposed are quotations from national and Iowa newspapers and magazines. For example: "For Obama, it's not politics as usual," from the Gazette in Cedar Rapids. "Far more presidential," from Time magazine's Joe Klein. "Takes on powerful interests ...

Focus Media to Join Nasdaq-100 Index

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:04:00 GMT
Forbes - Among other things, the Business Outlook section and quotations from management in this press release, as well as Focus Media's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. Focus Media may also make written or oral forward ...

Zhuhai: Sunday Quotes (Pitpass)

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:48:34 GMT
Zhuhai: Sunday Quotes

China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Signs Strategic Cooperation Agreements ...

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:37:00 GMT
Forbes - Among other things, the quotations from management in this press release contain forward-looking statements. Such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward ...

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Virginia


The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

John Adams


Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"


There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill


Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Scandinavian Proverb


Go often to the house of thy friend for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Napoleon


Men, in general, are but great children.

Seneca


Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

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Robert Louis Stevenson


A friend is a present you give yourself.

Voltaire


I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Benjamin Franklin


To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.

Sigmund Freud


Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Robert Collier


Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.

W. Somerset Maugham


We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Sophocles


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Buddy Hackett


Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.

Gore Vidal


It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Paddy Chayefsky


Television is democracy at its ugliest.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit


What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

Horace Mann


A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

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The Most Romantic Movies Ever (WXII-TV Winston-Salem)

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:40:11 GMT
We salute the most romantic movies of all time.

Midori Dream recipe

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:21:00 +0000
Check out this distinctive recipe for Midori Dream, with vodka, Midori melon liqueur and Sprite soda.

1 oz Midori melon liqueur
2 oz vodka
3 1/2 oz chilled Sprite soda

Pour the vodka and Midori melon liqueur into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes.
Shake well, and strain into a highball glass filled with ice cubes.
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