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"Your smoking behavior depends upon not just the smoking behavior of the people you know but also the people who they know," and so on, said Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the report.   The findings back up studies showing that peer influence plays a key role in people's decision to stop lighting up and provide evidence that the "buddy system" used by smoking cessation, weight loss and alcoholism programs to change addictive behavior works.    --AP at www.cnn.com

We knew this downturn was coming over a year ago.  We know other companies throughout the country and they started having sales drops way before we did.    Some say we are isolated from those bad effects and that is just not true; we just get the effects later.   --Tom Demeo, Tile and Marble Outlet, Santa Cruz and Watsonville, California

On his own, however, he developed a passion for the perils of the hunt almost as great as his yen for acquisition -- or as he puts it in the "Temple of Doom", "fortune and glory".  --Gene Seymour of Newsday in www.mercurynews.com

Some people think so many things;   So many things that are not so; Never mind their taunts and stings; You and I, dear -- know. --Ruth Mason Rice

We remain optimistic no matter what.  If we have a slight dip, well that is business.  Overall we keep growing though at a controlled pace.   That is why we are so optimistic about the future.  --Gina Lyons, Lyons Marble and Granite, Watsonville and Santa Cruz, CA www.lyonsmarble.com

Do what you will, but not because you must.  --Zen Koan

A genuine word of kindness is often the best lever to raise a depressed spirit to its natural level.  The art of saying appropriate words in a kindly way is one that never goes out of fashion, never ceases to please, and is within the reach of the humblest.  --Arthur Helps

I didn't want the brand to die so I bought the company.  --Mary Cody, Polar Bear Ice Cream, Santa Cruz, California www.santacruzpolarbear.com

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Talking explores history.  Doing rewrites it.  www.ibm.com/dna

The true art of memory is the art of attention.  --Johnson

As it relates to training and development, community involvement and human resources should work together to determine which skills can be enhanced by volunteer service; which volunteerism opportunities can help deliver results; and how the outcomes can be measured, just as one would with other training investments.  --Teresa Briggs in www.mercurynews.com

From what I see now, Clinton seems to have a stronger path to the electoral college today.  --Superdelegate Chris Stampolis

Retired but busy.  Wireless but easy.  Verizon

Stop talking, start doing.  www.ibm.com/dna

I'd have to take another fresh look at Obama.  I know it's a fresh face and change,but I'm not really sure of what is really behind that.  Could it be fluff? --Superdelegate Avygail Sanchez

The number of fat cells in the body is set by the end of adolescence and never changes.  Gaining or losing weight only changes the amount stored in each cell.  The research suggests why it is so hard for overweight people to keep off the weight they have lost.  --Betsy Mason, Medianews

When the facts change, I change my opinion.   What do you do sir?  --John Maynard Keynes

Scents have an uncanny ability to trigger memories because they are the only sense that directly connects to the part of the brain that stores emotional memories and new research suggests that they may also consolidate new knowledge and facilitate learning.  --Andrew Weil at www.drweil.com

The Internet is routinely used when making buying decisions, but its influence is small compared to offline channels such as friends and sales personnel.  --Associated Press

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After a while, you start noticing people wearing the lapel pin but not acting very patriotic.  My attitude is that I'm less concerned with what you're wearing on your lapel than what's in your heart. You show your patriotism by how you treat your fellow Americans, especially those ones who serve. --Barrack Obama quoted by www.cnn.com

Wrong. Midwestern bigotry, idiocy, and ignorance have NEVER been the values of America. --CNN political blog

Imagination rules the world.  --Napoleon

There is no happiness in having and getting, but only giving.  Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.  --F.W. Gunsaulus

Nothing is difficult if you divide it into small jobs.  --Henry Ford

It is true that everything in this life is transitory and filled with uncertainty, but it is lamentable that anyone should ignore this fact and keep on trying to seek enjoyment and satisfaction of his desires.  --Dendo Kyokai

A character is a perfectly formed will.  --Novalis

He who is firm in will moulds the world to himself.  --Goethe

Fortune, to show us her power, and  abate our presumption, seeing she could not make  fools wise, has made the fortunate.  --Montaigne

The human mind is an aggregate of causes and conditions.  It is in constant change.  --Dendo Kyokai

In a hierarchy, every employee rises to his level of incompetence.  --Laurence J. Peter

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The children of immigrants, even if they don't grow up speaking their parents' language, can learn it to required proficiency in 16 weeks.  It takes people without that cultural heritage  about 63 weeks.  --Pamela Hess, Associated Press

As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939 an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." --George Bush quoted by www.cnn.com

Those working class blue collar voters that Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama are trying so hard to woo have suddenly become  fair game for Sen. McCain.  This presidential campaign gets more fun everyday.  --Kirch DeMartini

To suggest any white voter is racist because the individual does not see Obama as the best candidate is another form of racism.  --John Lowery

Obama tried, not for the first time, to deflect and counter criticisms by articulating his view of foreign relations,  one in which military might is accompanied by diplomatic engaging with all countries, including enemies. --Larry Rohter, NY Times

He has the deed half done who has made a start.  --Horace

You can actually handle dragonflies with care and release them unharmed, whereas it is virtually impossible to do that with butterflies.  --Martin Reid

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.  --Thoreau

There is only one success -- to spend your life your own way.  --Christopher Morley

I just don't get it.  They appreciate my sense of independence, then scold me for thinking outside the box.  --Vic Lee in Pardon My Planet

Gay marriage?  I'm all for it.  I think everyone should have the right to be miserable.  --Tom Krassowski in the www.mercurynews.com

By the way, we are still way ahead of you over here in France where it is legal to wed a dead person (no kidding.)  --Patrick Mattimore

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As for chaos theory specifically, search engine optimization is also directly tied in with the observation and management of minute changes within the system. Tweaking is often the term used in this regard. These small changes, when applied correctly, can prove to have vast effects on the system as a whole.  --Devon Peterson

A weed is a treasure and a treasure is a weed.  --Zen Koan

Lori Drew of Suburban St. Louis, Mo. who allegedly helped create a MySpace account in the name of someone who didn't exist to convince young  neighbor Megan Meier she was chatting with a 16 year old boy named Josh Evans, was charged with conspiracy and fraudulently gaining access to someone else's computer.  Megan hanged herself at home in October 2006, allegedly after receiving a dozen or more cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.  --Linda Deutch from Associated Press

The governor is fond of saying that California's government does not have a revenue  problem it  has a "spending problem".  It's time for him to change his mantra, or at least admit that, after all these years, the problem is now his own."  --Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee

Whatever strengthens and purifies affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.  --Shelley

Joy is not in things; it is in us.  --Wagner

From meat to mustard, consumers are trying to control their food bills by buying smaller-size items as they grapple with soaring food prices.  Companies have taken note, experimenting with different measures like three quarter gallon milk jugs and pies that have shrunk to 6 inches.  --Anne D'Innocenzio of the Associated Press

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five pound note.   He or she radiating focus of good-will; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.   They practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Livableness of Life.  --Robert Louis Stevenson

The idea for tech vendors is to make getting into it free.   Then once you suck them in, you have to make it enough of a value so that they will part with their money.  --Sharon Noguchi in www.mercurynews.com

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Every duty we  omit obscures some truth we should have known.  --Ruskin

The Maya are alive, their works can be seen in the construction of great hotels, they are the workers and they are Maya, they are waiters but also Maya, they are also professionals, therefore we are not a lost race.  -- Gonzalo Pech Chuc member of the Academia de la Lengua y Culturas Mayas de Quintana Roo AC.

The U.S. always seems to find the means to reinvent itself in ways that Japan -- and much of Europe --often lacks.   --Stephane Garelli

There are good reasons Republicans are focusing on indentity rather than issues this year: in poll after poll, there's not a single major issue on which the public agrees with them or their presumptive nominee.  --Harold Meyerson

I cannot think but that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell  on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty.  --John Lubbock

The biggest step communities can take to overcome our driving addiction is to mandate higher density and mixed-use development.  This will curb the unbridled exurban subdivision and mall sprawl that forces auto use for every perceived need.  Mixed-use development provides a variety of homes, jobs, shopping and parks in urban or suburban neighborhoods so people can live, work and play without necessarily driving.  --Warren Karlenzig of Common Current

People who pedal their bikes to work actually get punished as they are filtering the exhaust gases from the SUVs, trucks, etc.  As a courtesy to the imbecilic car culture around here, all you inhale are gas and diesel fumes.  If we want a clean environment, let's tax the inefficient trucks and SUVs off the road, but not asphyxiate bicyclist and pedestrian.  --Marc Moisson in the www.mercurynews.com

For people to achieve all that is demanded of them, they must regard themselves as greater than they are.  --Johann Goethe

It seems to me that one who has 18 children yet depends on no government help in raising those children is taking responsiblity for her actions.  As long as she stays out of my wallet, she can do whatever she wants.  It is when a person dips into my hard-earned income that I take offense.  --David Hildreth in the www.mercurynews.com

Even if they have the means to support so many children, how can they ignore the impact of such procreation on Planet Earth?  Do we wait for over-population woes (such as China) before taking personal responsiblity?  And why, oh why does the media glamorize such irresponsible behavior? --Jeane Hendricks in the www.mercurynews.com

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Please Don't Hit Me,  I'm Not 100% sure about my coverage.  --State Farm Insurnace bumper sticker

I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.  --Thomas Jefferson

Just like black holes, wormholes suck in particulate objects, and also like black holes, they also travel at escape velocity, which is, the speed to get out of there is faster than the speed of light.   I'd like to prove that  wormholes are really there and prove all the theories are correct.  --10 year old college student Moshe Cavalin

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure; the long nights you have devoted to work.  Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you never failed to catch.  --Max O'Rell

In other words, if one felt comfortable then this secure, comfortable feeling was an indication that one had fallen behind the innovation curve, a detriment to success.  The implication was that innovation is inherently a tenuous and uncertain thing and that making it into a 'comfort' thing is very bad strategy.    --JD Deal

Make medicine from suffering.  --Zen Koan

A rose to the living is more than sumptous wreaths to the dead. --Nixon Wateman

It is a sad thing to reflect that in a world so overflowing with goodness of smell,  of fine sights and sweet sounds, we pass by hastily and take so little note of them.  --David Grayson

The world is so full of wondrous things, how can anyone be bored?  --JD Deal on www.twitter.com

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world.  It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.  --Arthur Hopkins

Make online offers that leverage your search content.  --Anonymous

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The last Russian doomsday members quit their hide-out after officials found the bodies of two female cult members who died in the cave and warned survivors they could be poisoned by fumes from the decomosing bodies.  --David Nowalk, Associated Press

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.  --Sir Walter Scott

It's a $14 trillion dollar economy.  Every three months, 7 million Americans change jobs.  Presidents aren't powerful enough to steer this colossus.  --Robert Samuelson, Washington Post

I think estimates that we are near the bottom of the housing correction will prove to be overly optimistic.  We have had a housing bubble and it will take some time to deflate.  --Len Blum, Westwood Capital

You smile, the world changes.  --Zen Koan

There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.  --Leigh Hunt

Bad temper is its own scourge.  --Charles Buxton

Consider how few things are worthy of anger, and thou wilt wonder that any fools should be wroth.  --Robert Dodsley

these rigid mental constructs of ours can only be destroyed by trauma or gestalt changes; small incremental changes only leave them intact  --JD Deal on twitter.com

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.  --Muriel Strode

All that the poor can offer is favors.  --Howard of Penrith

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The world is so full of such wondrous things, how can anyone be bored?  --JD Deal

Everybody looks good on paper.  --John Y. Brown

When you begin a response with "no", you place the sales dialogue in jeopardy because the buyer may not be able to see past your refusal.  --Sue Hershkowitz-Coore

With Zen, everyday is a good day.  Without Zen, even good days are bad days.  --Zen Koan

Greed is the evolutionary consequence of the 'hoarding instinct'; a dynamic in the social evolution of greedy humans.  In the very old days those that hoarded for the winter did not starve as readily as those that did not.   This hoarding instinct is a species trait even though most of us don't face daily starvation.  --JD Deal

A leader deals in hope.  --Napoleon Bonaparte

See how true merit in the life of man runs broad and deep, to execute his will, how, like a river, man in varied poise, the greater be the life, the less the noise.  --Octave F. Ursenbach

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we  would find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.  --Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of being, is the only goal of life.  --Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities as you go on.  The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find the seventh wave is a long time a coming.  You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth and influence.  --John B. Gough

You can always spot well-informed people.  Their views are the same as yours.  --Ilka Chase

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My boss left early today and I had to deal with one big crisis  after another.  I finally told everyone to put their heads down on  their desks until  things straighened themelves out.   

Have you ever considered giving seminars to executives?

Well, yeah.  More managers need to know about these techniques.   --Cartoon strip Blondie by Young

Scientists have more respect for elevated spiritual states.  Andrew Newburg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that transcendent experiences can actually be identified and measured in the brain (people experience a decrease in activity in the parietal lobe which orients us in space.)  The mind seems to have the ability to transcend itself and merge with a larger presence that feels more real.  --David Brooks

Patience is not swatting your husband when he refuses to wear his hearing aid.  --Brian Crane in Pickles

Never rub your hashi together as if trying to kindle a fire.  Never point with your hashi.  Or wave them.  Or drum them on the bar.  Do not use them to spear pieces of food.  Never leave your hashi stuck in a bowl of food, particularly a bowl of rice.  --David Plotnikoff in the www.mercurynews.com

The more we do, the more we can do.  --William Hazlitt

The  wave and the sea are one.  --Zen Koan

Just as the Origin of Species reshaped social thinking, just as Einstein's theory of relativity affected  art, so the Revolution in neuroscience is having an effect on how people see the world.   --David Brooks, New York Times.

When the sky is clear the sun appears, when the earth is parched rain will fall.  He opened his heart fully and spoke out, but it was useless to talk to pigs and fish.  --Mumon

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In my zeal to oppose anti-Semitism and bigotry in all its ugly forms, I have often emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholics and Protestant relations with the Jews.  In the process I may have contributed to the mistaken impression that the anti-Jewish violence of the Crusades and the Inquisition defines the Catholic church.  --John Hagee

I burn the books in my bag.   But the verses written in my guts cannot be forgotten.  --Zen Koan

What is really going to help McCain win Hispanic support in November is  the same  thing that has earned him so much of it up to now.  It's called character, and Hispanics -- like many other Americans -- may not always be able to define it.   But they know it when the see it.   --Ruben Navarrete, Jr. from the San Diego Union-Tribune

I'm always ready to learn, but I don't always like being taught.   --Winston Churchill

On the whole, the cost of designing and building a school, say a three-story junior high school in Mexico City, is only about 5 percent higher.  You don't necessarily design a building to avoid collapse , but design so that it's a survivable collapse.  You want large voids so they can be accessed by rescuers.  --Ben Wisner

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk  his well-being, to risk  his life, in a great cause.  --Theodore Roosevelt

More than 1,000 California properties were foreclosed upon each weekday in April, setting a bleak new record for the state's troubled housing market, while foreclosures in Santa Clara County surged 585 percent from a year earlier.  --Sue McAllister in the www.mercurynews.com

We confess our little faults only to persuade others we have no great ones.  --La Rochefoucauld

Business is solid at Wal-Mart while other competitors are hurting.  But it is a bad barometer for  the U.S. economy, that even though Wal-Mart is king  of  everyday low prices, shoppers still have to buy less and shift to more cash than credit.  --Burt P. Flickinger III of Strategic Resource Group.

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Never stop exploring.   -- Anonymous

Courage does not consist in feeling no fear, but in conquering fear.  He is the hero who seeing the lions on either side goes straight on, because there his duty lies.  --Saturday Magazine

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. --Josh Billings

Look and see with your own eyes.  If you hesitate, you miss the mark forever.  --Zen Koan

When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on them and improve his conduct.  When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.   --Dendo Kyokai

We make our own fortunes and call them fate.  --Benjamin Disraeli

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California today will propose borrowing against future state lottery revenue to help close a $15.2 Billion budget deficit in the next fiscal year.  --Juliet Williams of AP

If you meet a fencing master on the road, you may give him your sword; if you meet a poet you may offer him your poem.  When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend.  Never give the whole thing at once.  --Mumon

A REAL prospect is Ready to buy, Eager for the outcome your product/service/idea offers, At this time, interested Listening with a  desire to a buy a product like yours.  --Sue Hershkovitz-Coore

It is only through labor and prayerful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.  --Teddy Roosevelt

Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste  of life lies in the love we have not  used, the selfish prudence that will risk  nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.  No  one ever yet  was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime "let out all the length of all the reins."   --Mary Cholmondeley

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It's not just that we aren't on the same page.  We're not on the same book.  We're not even on the same side of the library.  --Hillary B. Price in "Rhymes with Orange".

Society affect to estimate men by their talents, but really feels and knows them by their character.  --Henry David Thoreau

What are you doing?

Throwing away some of our money. 

What? 

Chill out. This is "disposable income".

Glenn McCoy in The Duplex.

According to the new report, Jackson reviewed the records of actress Farah Fawcett on 104 days from July 1, 2006 to May 21, 2007.  She also looked at the records of pop  star Britney Spears, whose medical files have  been viewed inappropriately by dozens of other UCLA workers,  according to the report.  --Charles Ornstein of the LA Times on snoops in UCLA medical files

Every child saved with my help and help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a  title to glory. --Irena Sendler who saved an  estimated 2500 children during the Holocaust as quoted by Monika Scislowska of  the Associated Press

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.  It will  lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render  deformity itself agreeable.  -- Addison

I am unique.  Where else will you find a woman who grew up in East LA, had a top 10 hit in her teens, trained boxers with her father, went undefeated in four fights of her own, drove a truck for Fedex to make ends meet and attended college to become a "woman cop"?  --Ersi Arvizu from the '70's band El Chicano

Procreation is a biological  act involving choice, chance and other factors, not the simplistic "God's will".  People should at least take responsiblity for their actions, not blame their misguided irresponsibility on God.  Especially in light of the overpopulation of the 21st  century,  such ignorance is practiced  under the guise of religion is simply shameful.  --Rev. Ernest W. Cockrell

I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears.  I will not permit eight long  years to pass without serious action on serious changes.  --John McCain

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The wretch enjoys a moment's  relief when the mystic chord is  temporarily slackened by a neighbor's fall; but his agony immediately begins again, for he anticipates another twitch as soon as the fallen is restored to prosperity.  --W. Arnot

If we started eliminating prospects based off of accusations that college players have taken money or gifts, there wouldn't be anyone left to draft.   --ESPN

How many planes can you fly on?  How many pairs of shoes can you wear? --Robert Morse on 'Say on Pay' compensation for corporate executives

It's been said that freedom is participation in power.  By that definition, how much power do we have?  We've been stripped of it. --Ralph Nader

They can  cover more ground than you can in your car, so unless you know you are  moving away from the tornado the best thing you can do is find a strong structure. --Andy Foster, National Weather Service meteorologist.

Here's a painless way for Cabrillo Junior College to save money: Quit sending glossy schedules to every mailbox in our area.  I constantly receive two copies due to an unused address in my home.  Is is too much to ask that interested students go to the campus and obtain a copy?  --Steve Bankhead of  Watsonville quoted in www.santacruzsentinel.com

The rise in oil  prices isn't the result of runaway speculation; it's  the result of fundamental factors, mainly the difficulty of finding oil and the rapid growth of emerging economies like China. --Paul Krugman, New York Times

What I spent I lost, what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.  --Addison on a graveyard epitaph

France consumes only half as much oil per capita as America, yet the last time I looked, Paris wasn't a howling wasteland.  But the odds are that we're looking at a future in which energy conservation becomes increasingly important, in which many people  may even -- gasp --take  public transit to work.  Paul Krugman, New York Times

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Posting about 30 million ads each month; Craigslist is an abiding source of misery for the newspaper industry.  Scott Duke Harris in the www.mercurynews.com

At investment conferences, people keep asking ...how are you going to make lots of money?   And we say,  'hey, not interested.'  Because once you are living well, and maybe providing for your future, what's the point in more?"  Craig Newmark of www.craigslist.com

If she hadn't opened the door with a knife in her hand...she'd still be alive.   Mike Gilbert on O.J. Simpson's  alleged confession.

It really snowballed.  I know  this doesn't bode well, but Obama  is like a cult.  --Ana  Yang

Obama's claim to being a uniter, reaching across the table and ending the war,  was never visible in his short congressional history, but his ego allows him to act as if it did.  --Linda Sides

Our patent system faces increasingly complex applications, which is why -- despite significant productivity initiatives -- the patent office currently has a backlog of  760,000 patents and the average  patent exam takes 31 months. --Carlos Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce

If China ever were to become a truly free political system, it might actually become more and not less aggressive.  -- Joshua Kurlantzick in the LA Times.

The only truly legitimate reasons for government regulation of any business are to protect the public  from dangers to  health and safety or fraud.  But those  who want to legislate their competition out of business constantly misuse those principles.  --Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee

Legal process  outsourcing is being called the next big thing in Indian  business.  It marks India's climb up the chain of outsourcing jobs -- from low end, back office service functions to high value skilled legal work.   --Rama Lakshmi of the Washington Post

True courage is the result of reasoning.   A brave mind is always impregnable.  Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins; and a just sense of honor and of  infamy, of duty and religion, will  carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.  --Jeremy Collier

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We can bring together a large number of skilled lawyers in no time at one-fifth the cost. --Srinivas Pingalli of Quattro on legal outsourcing to India.

Residents say children as young as 12 have been recruited by child labor rings, equipped with fake identification cards and transported hundreds of miles across the country to booming coastal cities, where they work 12 hour shifts to produce much of the world's toys, clothes and electronics.  David Barboza of the New York Times  in Liangshan, China.

In some  cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid before being distributed.  --Associated Press on the relief efforts in Burma. 

We stand in our own shadow and wonder why it is dark.  --Zen Koan

Fortunately, with ongoing and new technological advances of viewing and researching brain function, scientists have learned that the brain is not fixed in form and  function -- but can heal and mend itself as it helps improve its owner's quality of life.  --Offra Gerstein in the www.santacruzsentinel.com

"But what would become  of this place after my memories faded?" he wonders.  Without memories to give life to the artifice of Second Life, how would  this digital facsimile sustain him?  Unless maybe, "after my 'first life' memories were gone, I would no longer miss what I'd lost."  --Frazier Moore on switching to a virtual reality. 

Courage is resistance  to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.  --Mark Twain

A growing number of businesses and organizations have taken the hint and began setting up their own presences on  Twitter.   JetBlue, for example, answers traveler's queries and warns about weather-related delays.  --Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post

There are very few things in this world worth having that can be had cheaply.  What we have come to call the strenous life is essential to all  acquisition.  One cannot get  his living for the asking;  he must work  for  his living.  --Francis G. Peabody

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What smart stores are doing is creating a new store experience --both online and off --so you are not just a merchandise retailer but an experience retailer.  It's all about what you can do to do to set yourself apart. --Craig Johnson

Researchers say blocking pleasure, especially the way the obesity drugs do, might take the fun out of many things, not just the harmful substances and behaviors these drugs target. --Marilyn Marchione  of  the Associated Press.

Obama will  never be at his best around Hillary; she drains him of his magical powers.  --Maureen Dowd

Powerset won't actually search the Internet.  It won't even search a subsection of the Internet.  Instead,  it  will try to  demonstrate the  potency of its natural language search technology by focusing on Wikipedia and Freebase.  Elise Ackerman  of the www.mercurynews.com

Permaculture gardening is an integrated approach, plants, animals, and nature work together to support a multidimensional ecosystem.  In other words, you're working with, not against, nature.  --Fran Sorin

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates between happiness and sorrow, a good deed  and a bad deed, one  is able  to  realize freedom. --Dendo Kyokai in the Teaching of Buddha.

I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about  to eat cherries, that they might look  bigger and more tempting.  In like manner, I make the most of my enjoyments, and pack away my troubles in as small a compass as I can.  --Robert  Southey

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It wasn't worth living without my kids.  I had a big mental breakdown.  --Dolores Quinones' reaction when some of her 18 children were placed in foster care.

The U.S. uses about 21.5 million barrels of oil every day.  If lined up in one gallon cans, this daily usage would  completely circle the earth over six times.  Gary Riggs of Long Marine Laboratory www.ucsc.eduBa

There's a lot of hot air and arrogance in the business we all would be better off without. --Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital on venture capital. 

In  Santa Cruz we  like to think about ourselves as wonderful, enlightened people but we're just like anybody else. --Simba Kenyatta i the www.santacruzsentinel.com

Babies born to mothers in prison generally are better off staying with them.  --Mary Byrne

Obama's problem with Rev. Wright back then wasn't that he was too radical but that he was too bourgeois.  Obama says he told Wright at their first meeting that he worried "tht the church is too  upwardly mobile."  --David Ignatius of the Washington Post

At Kleiner, we're trying to watch out language. --John Doerr

Realize that those repeated assertions do impact yoiur view of yourself, create a downcast emotional state that may easily lead to behaviors that will only confirm your erroneous view of yourself.  --Offra Gerstein

We're all frustrated because the average time to liquidity for a venture-backed company is now seven years. --Pascal Levensohn of Levensohn Venture Partners

Chinese entreprenuers are every bit as intense and every bit as ambitious as the very best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.  --Jim Breyer,  Accel Partners as quoted at www.mercurynews.com

In China you have an economy that has the ability to move goods around cheaply.  I'm certainly not in Shanghai for the air.  --Gary Riechel, Qiming Venture Partners

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Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person.  -- Virgil

Grandfather dies, father dies, son dies -- this is good fortune.   --Zen Koan

To be effective in a short innovation cycle,  you cannot just be sitting at your desk.  --Matthias Graf  of Google.

Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. --Charles Dickens

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.,  --A.C. Benson

We recall today with shame that 75 years ago -- not just here in Berlin but in all of Germany -- tens of thousands applauded and cheered as the books of Erich Kaestner, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Kurt Tucholsky and many others were thrown into the fire by students. --German President Horst Koehler

The great danger of unemployment insurance is that people are paid to be jobless.  -- Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post

The authorities cannot figure out who are the parents of these children, not only because the mothers and children are uncoperative, but because the incest is so convuluted that it would take a flowchart to begin to unscramble the mess.  --Laina Farhat Holzman on fundamentalist Mormon cult in Texas

A lawless person is never free.  He is a victim of his own unaccountable impulses and soon a slave to his bad habits.  --George Walter Fiske

This is going to require some either bold actions by management to change the direction of the business here shortly, or there's going to have to be some other strategic direction.  --BMO Capital Markets analyst Rick Weinhart on Circuit City's financial woes.

A foolish man always thinks only of the results, an is impatient without the effort that is necessary to get good results.  No good can be attained without proper effort, just as there can be no third story without the foundation and the first and second stories.  --Dendo Kyokai

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We want to target the smaller companies about to make a jump in size.  We're not going to get Sun or Cisco to move here, but we can go after  the faster  growing companies that are about to move away.  --Matt Shelton of JR Parrisish Commercial Real  Estate in making an appeal to the Scotts Valley City government to subsidize real estate advertising quoted in www.santacruzsentinel.com

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. --Goethe

It takes only weeks to strip down our constitutional freedoms  when we are concerned about our safety, but more than 18 years about regulating a business? --Busy Burr in the www.mercurynews.com

Memory is not wisdom;  idiots can by rote repeat volumes.  Yet what is wisdom without memory?  --Tupper

There's only one remaining chapter in this fascinating spectacle.  Negotitating the terms of Hillary's surrender.  After which we will have six months of watching her enthusiastically stumping the country for Obama, denying with utter conviction Replublican charges that he is the out of touch, latte sipping elitist she warned Democrats against so urgently in the last, late leg of her doomed campaign.  --Charles Krauthammer in the www.nytimes.com

Funny how the populist politicians want to keep the price of gas high; who do they think high gas prices affect the most?  -- JD Deal

Before you give up hope, think back and read the attacks that were made upon Lincoln. --Bruce  Barton

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You can always do a quick Internet search to learn more about customers, and this is sometimes a good idea.  Practically,  however, researching every business or consumer you call may not be a smart use of time.  --Sue Hershkowitz-Coore

Man's nature is like a dense thicket that has no entrance and is difficult to penetrate.  In comparsion, an animal is  much easier to understand.  --Dendo Kyokai

If you want to be miserable think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you. --Charles Kingsley

To find yourself is to lose yourself.  --Zen Koan

Clear writers,  like clear fountains, do  not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. --Landor

The cynic is the one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.  --Oscar  Wilde

Read the best books first or you may never have a chance to read them at all.  --Thoreau

As  one grows older one is more impatient with subterfuges and shams generally, and increasingly desirous that the "last run" at least should be free from them.  The world is apparently so confused that the least one can do for it is to keep one's mental integrity and to hold honestly to such poor wisdom as one has been able to garner along the way.  --Jane Addams

In the world of nature there always exists an appropriate order and everything has its own function.  If this order is disturbed, the functioning is interrupted and the whole order will go to ruin.  --Dendo Kyokai

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Blogging can create an instant support system, especially at a time when you might not have the energy or resources to seek out people who've shared your experiences.  -- Margaret Mason, author of "No One Cares What You Had For Lunch"

To be suspicious is to invite treachery.  --Voltaire

The moon is often hidden by clouds, but it is not moved by them and its purity remains untarnished.  Therefore, people must not be deluded into thinking that this defiled mind is their own true mind.  --Kyokai in The Teaching of Buddha

Life is always difficult in proportion to it intensity and reality.  --Edward Howard Griggs

Prospects are likely to say yes if:  they need what you sell, you're prepared to sell it to them and you have an attitude of positive expectancy. --Sue Hershkovitz-Coore

Obama remains a speculative choice among many white voters,  especially after the  still simmering saga of Rev. Wright and the candidates less-than-satisfying explanations of why he remained associated with a pastor who  so adamantly held  such extreme views.  -- Santa Cruz Sentinel

Hillary emerged from a lifetime of government limos to bask as queen of the blue-collar prom.  Nobility is for losers.  --Maureen Dowd in the www.nytimes.com

The platypus is the only mammal to make venom, and the chemicals in it are almost identical to those in  some snake venoms.  --Rick Weiss

Why does Barack Obama want to increase taxes again and drive up the cost of gasoline on Americans.  -- Republican party website. 

The biggest problem for new managers seems to be the difficulty transitioning from their roles as "individual contributors" to  their new responsibilities delegating work, and coaching and overseeing the workers who do it.  --ConceptReserve

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Hillary Clinton is beginning to look like George Bush.  --Barrack  Obama

C'mon, give it up for me.  I.  Love.   This.  Company.  --Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO

In first marriages, men are typically a couple of years older than women.   The older men are when they marry, and it doesn't matter whether it's a  first or a second marriage, the more years they marry down.  --Paula England quoted in the www.mercurynews.com

Our message to the military rulers, let the United States help you to help the people.  --Laura Bush on the Burma cyclone aftermath.

Some would find fault with the morning-red, if they ever got up early enough...The faultfinder will find faults even in Paradise.  --Henry David Thoreau

If a signal arrives, they don't mind if  they're never able to decipher it.  Just the confirmation of of intelligent life outside of Earth is all the fulfillment they seek.  "It would be the greatest discovery in the hisory of mankind."  --Julius Sevrens Lyons on the search for extraterrestrial life through SETI

Men don't want to get old.  Women don't worry so much about it because we take care of ourselves. --Paulette Dickerson

For women, the marriage market may be limited to potential husbands who are significantly older, because many men of the same age are interested in younger women.  --Stephanie Coontz

Americans fixated on the political campaign may be missing the reality of a global era that may matter much more than their presidential choice: On a ever growing list of issues, the big decisions are being made or profoundly influenced by a little-understood international network of  business, financial, government, cultural and  military leaders who are beyond the reach of American voters.  --David Rothkopf

Possession, why more tasteless than pursuit?  Why is a wish far dearer than a crown?  That wish accomplished, why the grave of bliss?  Because, in the great future buried deep, beyond our plans, lies all that man with ardor should pursue.  --Young

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Obama's comments about small-town America being "bitter" were recorded by an Oakland blogger on  her MP3 player while attending a San Francisco fundraiser. –Mary Anne Ostrom of the www.mercurynews.com

If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.  –Democratic strategist James Carville on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  

The recent environmental protests in China are organized through Web sites, blogs and cell phone text messages, illustrating how some Chinese are using digital technology to spur civic movements, which usually are banned by the police.  Organizers also used text messages to publicize their cause nationally. – Edward Wong of the New York Times

Elmo: When the time comes, I'll get a job that pays me to have fun. 

Dagwood: What if you have to take a job that isn't fun, Elmo?

Elmo: Ha! Ha! Who would do a dumb thing like that, Mr. B?

--from the comic strip Blondie by Young

"Do not revive, do not feed under any circumstance."  Suicide note left by D.C. Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey.

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"I believe recovery is a whole lot easier after you win."  Dallas Stars hockey coach Dave Tippett

In Mogadishu, the price of corn meal has more than doubled since January.  Rice has risen during the same period from $26 to $47.50 for a 110 pound sack.  "First we have been killed with bullets, now they are killing us with hunger," says protester Omar Hassan.   –Mohamed Olad Hassan of Associated Press

It was a serious sacrifice from me to ask for the first time in my life.  –Saddam Hussein on life in prison before he was executed.

"It seems that academia and the scientific community are all about free speech and critical thinking except when it comes to such pet topics as evolution through natural selection and manmade global warming."  Edgar Darwin in letter to Santa Cruz Sentinel.

They don't want regulations that would stabilize the economy but cramp their style.  –Thomas Friedman of the New York Times on wheeler dealers.  

The Seattle based company www.zillow.com calculated that nearly half the people who bought homes in Santa Clara County in 2006 were "upside down" in the first quarter or owed more money to their mortgage lenders than their homes were worth. –Sue McCallister, San Jose Mercury News www.mercurynews.com

Worried health officials will embark today on an aerial search for mosquitoes that carry the West Nile virus – with special attention to the 150 foreclosed homes with pools. –Leslie Griffey in the www.mercurynews.com

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