National Postgraduate Committee - Representative body for postgraduates made up of student representatives from educational institutions with postgraduate students. Aims to promote the interests of postgraduates studying while remaining politically non-aligned.
UJS - The Union of Jewish Students - The umbrella organisation for Jewish Students. Activities include education, welfare, social and campaign work.
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Associated Bodies Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Associated Bodies
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Associated Bodies "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Associated Bodies
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Associated Bodies A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Associated Bodies
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Associated Bodies Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 Associated Bodies "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Associated Bodies
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Associated Bodies The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Associated Bodies
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Associated Bodies Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Associated Bodies
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Associated Bodies A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Associated Bodies
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Associated Bodies If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Associated Bodies
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Associated Bodies If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Associated Bodies
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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Associated Bodies "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Associated Bodies
