Agropolis - The association of agricultural research centers and colleges, specialising in warm climate areas.
Cemagref - National research center for agricultural and environmental engineering.
CIRAD - Center for International Cooperation in Agronomy and Warm Climate Research.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Agriculture Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Agriculture
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Agriculture He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West May you never leave your marriage alive. Agriculture
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Agriculture "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Agriculture
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Agriculture Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Agriculture
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Agriculture When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Agriculture
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Agriculture It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Agriculture
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Agriculture "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Agriculture
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Agriculture Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Agriculture
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Agriculture I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Agriculture
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Agriculture I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Agriculture
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Agriculture "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Agriculture
