Clonown National School Wildlife Garden. - In May, 1993, the teachers of this two-teacher school, together with 35 pupils embarked on a five-year project to provide wildlife habitats in the school grounds so that wildlife could be studied there.
Equal Skills - Ensuring everyone is part of the information society in Ireland.
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Education Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Education
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Education Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Education "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Education
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Education
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Education "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Education
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Education All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Education
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Education In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Education
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Education Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Education
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Education Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Education
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Education Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Education
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Education "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Education
