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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
 Lois Hector Berlioz
The nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear—fear of the sort that a little cheap oratory turns easily to rage, hate, and violence.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
John Milton (1608-1674)
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Prognostication is difficult... especially as regards the future
Mark Twain
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
Habits change into character.
Ovid
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.
 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
 I gave enough to my children so that they could do anything, but not so much as they could do nothing  
Warren Buffet  
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
 No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
Capitalisation is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Prognostication is difficult, especially as regards the future.
Mark Twain
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)
We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.
Anna Sewell (1820-1878)
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)

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The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Friendless, adj.: Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
The fortunes of war more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
American poet Robert Frost

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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”

Lao Tzu

We should make Russsia a better place to leave.

All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Uranium sacrifices of Iran,

or Israel burns.
A magnetic bomb was attached to the car by two motorcyclists, Iran says  US has condemned the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist in a car bomb attack in north Tehran. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the US "had absolutely nothing to do" with the attack.

Chinese airlines warn they will refuse to pay EU carbon tax

China's four major airlines – national flag-carrier Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines – are represented by the CATA Photo: Doug Kanter/Bloomberg

By Peter Simpson, Beijing 05 Jan 2012

Beijing said it has deep concerns over the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which came into force on New year's Day and demands all airlines pay a green duty to offset carbon emissions.

"China opposes the European Union's unilateral legislation. China has expressed to the EU our deep concern and opposition many times on a bilateral level," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.

Mr Hong urged Brussels to hold urgent talks with Beijing over the controversial carbon allowance scheme, which has also met strong opposition from other countries.

The China Air Transport Association was more militant in its response – declaring its members would not co-operate with the ETS and refuse to pay the added tax.

It also said it would seek legal action and try and attempt to form an international alliance to scrap the scheme.

magic elections

the summing  percentage of all parties in Rostov region exceeds 146.

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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

It is impossible for good or evil to last for ever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between, he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan, poet

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

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new moon

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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

David F. D’Alessandro, author of Executive Warfare suggests a smart way to find smart applicants:
“Humor is a sign of intelligence…I never, ever hired someone who was mirthless. I may have hired a few who were worthless, but never mirthless.”

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Millennium City

Millennium City, a cluster of newer office buildings developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (16), has attracted the back offices of banks such as Standard Chartered Plc and Bank of East Asia Ltd. to East Kowloon. Manulife Financial Corp. last year moved its Hong Kong headquarters to the district, while PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has also relocated part of its operations there.
“We can really have a Canary Wharf here if the government gets its act together,” said John Davies, a Hong Kong-based executive director at CB Richard Ellis.
After spending 10 years in public discussion and consultation, the government in 2007 came up with an outline for the site’s redevelopment. The current plan includes building more than 33,000 units of public and private housing, 20 million square feet of office, retail and hotel spaces, cruise terminals and a stadium.
The plan for the development of Kai Tak “had evolved several times to meet changing community aspirations” before it was approved, the government’s Civil Engineering and Development Department, which is in charge of the development of Kai Tak, said in an e-mail reply to Bloomberg questions.

Removing Stigma

Central’s surging costs have already prompted defections. In 2007, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse Group AG and Deutsche Bank AG moved their entire operations in the city across the harbor to the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon, a reclaimed area that’s a five-minute train ride from Central.
Property prices on the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Victoria Harbour, have historically been below those of Hong Kong Island, home to the city’s financial district and its most expensive residential area. Before the completion of ICC, few banks would have considered setting up front offices in Kowloon, said Davies.
The move to West Kowloon “has removed the negative stigma of Kowloon,” he said. “To attract the same caliber of clients to East Kowloon, the infrastructure in that area needs to  be improved.”

"They can't without people, -

front sight is disturbing..."

0911

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

A steady hand in governing of military affairs is more requisite than in times of peace, because an error committed in war may, perhaps, prove irremediable.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)


"A new motto for the 21st century employee might well be: Be funny, make money. There is a direct correlation between having fun on the job and being more productive."
From Work Like Your Dog Fifty Ways to Work Less, Play More, and Earn More by Matt Weinstein and Luke Barber (Villard)

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Owning a Canadian

On her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox
Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22,
and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.
The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by a U.S.
man, and posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative: