Centre for European Policy Studies - Aims to produce sound policy research leading to constructive solutions to the challenges facing Europe.
Strengthening Academic & Industrial Links - SAIL Thematic network to facilitate the transnational exchange of knowledge and experience about academic and industrial co-operation between regions.
The United Europe Foundation - Independent, non-profit foundation that exists to promote the concept of a united Europe.
TransEUth - A portal for youth to post and discuss European politics at a regional level.
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Politics "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show 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 Politics
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Politics "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Politics
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Politics That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Politics
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Politics The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 Politics
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Politics 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 Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Politics
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Politics "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Politics
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Politics Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Politics
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Politics UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Politics
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Politics A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Politics
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Politics To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Politics "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Politics
