Nottingham Claimants Action - Committed to fighting the imposition of the Job Seekers Allowance benefits regime, and attempts by the DSS to force claimants on to 'workfare' schemes.
Merton Claimants Action Group - Campaign group that gives a voice to the unemployed, single parents, the sick, and the disabled who claim benefits.
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Benefit Claimants You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Benefit Claimants
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Benefit Claimants Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Benefit Claimants
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. 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 Benefit Claimants We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Benefit Claimants
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Benefit Claimants I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Benefit Claimants
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Benefit Claimants Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Benefit Claimants
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Benefit Claimants Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Benefit Claimants
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Benefit Claimants The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Benefit Claimants
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "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.) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Benefit Claimants "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Benefit Claimants
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Benefit Claimants In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Benefit Claimants
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Benefit Claimants Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Benefit Claimants
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Benefit Claimants A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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