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National Association of Prison Officers (NAPO) - Trade union, professional association and campaign organisation for workers in the National Probation Service and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Napo Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Napo Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Napo You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Napo Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Napo Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Napo Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln 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 Napo He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Napo Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Napo then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Napo A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Napo Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Napo Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Napo Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Napo Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Napo If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Napo It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Napo The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Napo Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Napo It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "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) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Napo The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Napo "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Napo
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