Competition Commission - Responsible for investigating allegations of restrictive practices and monopolies.
Civil Aviation Authority - CAA. Regulates the financial affairs and safety responsibilities of UK airlines and airports.
The Coal Authority - Regulates the licensing of coalmines and residual functions of the former British Coal.
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "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 Industry and Commerce The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "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 Industry and Commerce
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Industry and Commerce Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Industry and Commerce
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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) Industry and Commerce
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Industry and Commerce "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Success is just a matter of attitude.
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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Industry and Commerce I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Industry and Commerce
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Industry and Commerce I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Industry and Commerce
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Industry and Commerce Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Industry and Commerce
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Industry and Commerce "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Industry and Commerce
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Industry and Commerce Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "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 Industry and Commerce
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Industry and Commerce Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
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-- Lenny Bruce "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Industry and Commerce
"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) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Industry and Commerce "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Industry and Commerce
