Corsican autonomy could spell environmental disaster - New laws giving the island greater control of its own affairs will please independence campaigners but are a cause of concern to environmentalists, writes Jon Henley.
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Independence "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Independence
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Independence Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Independence
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Independence He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Independence
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Independence Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Independence
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Independence If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Independence
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Independence "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Independence
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Independence Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Independence
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Independence A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Independence
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Independence Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Independence
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Independence "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Independence
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Independence It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Independence
