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Evans Engineering Ltd - Environmentally friendly microhydro power is used for rural development and water projects.Features company philosophy and products.
Windmill Books - Sells secondhand and rare children's books, annuals, and collectables.
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"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Business and Economy Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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-- George de Benneville Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Business and Economy
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Business and Economy "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "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) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Business and Economy We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Business and Economy
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Business and Economy If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel What's new? Most of my wife. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Business and Economy
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Business and Economy "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Business and Economy
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Business and Economy
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Business and Economy 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 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Business and Economy
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
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 Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Business and Economy "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Business and Economy
