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RSI Mailing list - A resource and FAQ for people UK suffering from or concerned about RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury).
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Repetitive Strain Injury I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Repetitive Strain Injury
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters 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 Repetitive Strain Injury If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Repetitive Strain Injury
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Repetitive Strain Injury It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Repetitive Strain Injury
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Repetitive Strain Injury A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Repetitive Strain Injury
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 Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Repetitive Strain Injury For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Repetitive Strain Injury
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Repetitive Strain Injury "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Repetitive Strain Injury
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Man and wife make one fool. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Repetitive Strain Injury The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Repetitive Strain Injury
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Repetitive Strain Injury The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Repetitive Strain Injury
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Repetitive Strain Injury "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Repetitive Strain Injury
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Repetitive Strain Injury Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Repetitive Strain Injury
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Repetitive Strain Injury The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Repetitive Strain Injury
