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BBSRC - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the leading funding agency for academic research and training in the biosciences at universities and institutes throughout the UK. The research that we fund aims to improve our understanding of living organisms and biological systems
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) BBSRC "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein BBSRC Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married BBSRC "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 The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. BBSRC Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere BBSRC If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White BBSRC "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) BBSRC When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. BBSRC 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards BBSRC "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman BBSRC Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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" If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain BBSRC 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 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous BBSRC There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett "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) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli BBSRC Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) BBSRC Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short BBSRC A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock BBSRC Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken BBSRC "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe BBSRC "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer BBSRC I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger BBSRC A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables BBSRC It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. BBSRC
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