Plataforma Normes d' el Puig - PNP is a Plataform constituted by 60 associations of all the Valencian territory to protect the Valencian language. This site includes a report about the current situation of the valencian.
Plataforma Normes d'El Puig - PNP is a plataform founded to protect the valencian language. Documentation and information about the actual status of the valencian.
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Society and Culture Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Society and Culture Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Society and Culture The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Society and Culture
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall 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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Society and Culture "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Society and Culture
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture
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 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Society and Culture Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Society and Culture
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "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) Society and Culture
