Lords - Urban Foxes - Debate on what advice they will give to people living in urban areas whose gardens are overrun by foxes.
10 Downing Street Newsroom: Lobby Briefing - Media questions with answers from the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman. Questions included asking if the Prime Minister was aware of the purpose of yesterday's March in light of Alun Michael's reported admission that he personally was not, and whether Mr Michael's comments represented a Government view.
Commons - Hare Coursing (Northern Ireland) - Hansard transcript. Debate about hare coursing in Northern Ireland which takes place under Irish coursing club rules and differs greatly from hare coursing in England and Wales.
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-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Legislation "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown Legislation
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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-- G. K. Chesterton Legislation "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
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-- Groucho Marx Legislation
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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Uncl Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Legislation If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
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- A. J. Liebling Legislation
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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-- Mignon McLaughlin Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Legislation We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Legislation
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Legislation It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Legislation "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Legislation
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Legislation "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Legislation I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Legislation
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inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Legislation I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Legislation
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Legislation "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Legislation
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Legislation Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Legislation
