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Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB) - Presentation of this university institute. Presentation of the three sections: health and society, alpine environment and society, continuing education. Details of the different masters proposed. Sion.
University of applied sciences of western Switzerland - Valais (HEVs) - Presentation of the different fields of activity of this university: food & biotechnology, chemistry, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, business administration & management, computer science in business, tourism. Sion and Sierre.
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Education God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Education It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Education
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Education
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Education The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Education Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Education
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Education
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Education "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Education "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) 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 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "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 Education Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Education
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Education "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Education
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Education The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Education
