National Secular Society (UK) - The National Secular Society fights religious privilege and the survival of superstition. It vigorously campaigns for secularism, freethought, civil liberties and rational ethics.
The Church and State - A lecture by Rt Rev John Perry on the relationship between the Church of England and the state.
The Church of England and Establishment - Notes on the Church of England as an established church from a historical perspective. Prepared by the Department of History at the University of Botswana.
Guardian: Church backs PM's right to choose - Stephen Bates. The General Synod of the Church of England votes in favour of retaining the right of the Prime Minister to have the final say in choosing the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops.
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Disestablishment Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Disestablishment
My other wife is beautiful. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 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 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Disestablishment Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Disestablishment
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Disestablishment Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Disestablishment
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford May you never leave your marriage alive. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Disestablishment A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Disestablishment
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Disestablishment Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Disestablishment
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Disestablishment I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Disestablishment
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Disestablishment Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Disestablishment
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Disestablishment Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Disestablishment
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Disestablishment If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Disestablishment
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Disestablishment "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Disestablishment
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Disestablishment I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Disestablishment
