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Dundee Labour Party - Two speeches by the Chairman and a picture (of the Chairman).
Campaign for Socialism/The Citizen (Scotland) - Left grouping within the Scottish Labour Party, committed to common ownership, the equitable distribution of wealth, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service
Fife Labour Party - Information about organisations, candidates and representatives.
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Labour Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Labour
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "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) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle 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 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Labour At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Labour
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Labour Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Labour
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Labour Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Labour
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Labour "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Labour
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Labour "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Labour
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Labour Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Labour
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Labour In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Labour
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Labour 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 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Labour
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Labour Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Labour
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Labour 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. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Labour
