Rambower Moor - Information about this moorland and how to achieve protection of bitterns. There is also general information about EU-LIFE projects.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Brandenburg I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Brandenburg
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Brandenburg "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Brandenburg
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Brandenburg "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Brandenburg
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Brandenburg Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Brandenburg If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Brandenburg
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Brandenburg A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Brandenburg
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Brandenburg What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Brandenburg
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brandenburg "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Brandenburg
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Brandenburg "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Brandenburg
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Brandenburg It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Brandenburg
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Brandenburg "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 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Brandenburg
