2211 (Bracknell) Squadron ATC - Uniformed youth organisation for 13-18 year olds. Information about the Squadron, its activities, events and history, plus joining details.
Andrew MacKay MP - MP for Bracknell. News and views, activities with the Bracknell Conservative Association, links, and brief biography.
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"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Society and Culture 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 We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Society and Culture
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer 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 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Society and Culture
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Society and Culture
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Society and Culture All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "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) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Society and Culture Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Society and Culture
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Society and Culture
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Society and Culture It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Society and Culture
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "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 Society and Culture Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Society and Culture
