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Didcot Girls School - Comprehensive School for girls of 11 - 18 years, which has a large shared Sixth Form with St Birinus Boys' School.
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Education Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu 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 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 Education
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Education Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Education Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Education
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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" Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Education Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Education
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Education
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Education The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Education Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Education
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Education Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Education
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 "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) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Education A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Education
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Education Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Education
