Balfour Declaration 1926 Imperial Conference - Balfour was 78 when he chaired the committee established at the 1926 Imperial Conference to report on inter-imperial relations . Includes digitised scans and an RTF transcript.
The Balfour Declaration ( 1917 ) - Text of the letter to Lord Rothschild to assure him that his government supported the ideal of providing a homeland for the Jews.
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Balfour, Arthur The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Balfour, Arthur
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Balfour, Arthur We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Balfour, Arthur I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Balfour, Arthur
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Balfour, Arthur If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Balfour, Arthur
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Balfour, Arthur Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Balfour, Arthur
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Balfour, Arthur Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Balfour, Arthur
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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? Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Balfour, Arthur Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Balfour, Arthur
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Balfour, Arthur Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "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 Balfour, Arthur
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) 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 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Balfour, Arthur "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Balfour, Arthur
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Balfour, Arthur Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "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) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Balfour, Arthur Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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