People and Planet - Student network campaigning to end world poverty, for human rights, and protection of the environment. Information about their activities, local groups, and ethical careers.
World Development Movement - UK-based organisation campaigning against the root causes of world poverty. Works in partnership with other organisations in the UK and around the world.
Oxfam Campaigns - News of Oxfam UK's current campaigns, with information on how to get involved.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Campaigns "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Campaigns
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Campaigns What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Campaigns
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Campaigns "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Campaigns
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Campaigns "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Campaigns
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Campaigns I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Campaigns
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Campaigns The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Campaigns A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Campaigns
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Campaigns "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Campaigns
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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
bre He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Campaigns There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Campaigns
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Campaigns "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Campaigns
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Campaigns There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Campaigns
