Eastbank Academy - Eastbank Academy, as school in the Shettleston area.
Hillpark Secondary School - School in the south east side of the city that incorporates an English-Gaelic bilingual unit.
Knightswood Secondary School - Incorporating the Dance School of Scotland. Includes general information on curriculum, league tables, and a year planner, plus details on the various departments and courses offered. School is located in the west of the city.
Hillhead High School - Non-denominational school for secondary education in the west-end.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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-- Elbert Hubbard It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Secondary Schools
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Secondary Schools "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Secondary Schools
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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-- Anonymous Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Secondary Schools Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
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-- Nikki Giovanni Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
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"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
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-- Jane Austen Secondary Schools
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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-- Sam Kinison "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Secondary Schools The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "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) Secondary Schools Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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-- Cynthia Heimel Secondary Schools
