West Sussex Teachers' Association - The West Sussex National Union of Teachers. Information and assistance for teachers in West Sussex
Suffolk NUT - Regional information for teachers in Suffolk from the Suffolk division of the National Union of Teachers. Includes branch details and news updates.
Mid Essex NUT - A local Association of the National Union of Teachers, with news, meeting dates, organisational details and links to other educational sites.
Leicestershire NUT - Local branch contacts, events and newsletter for National Union of Teachers members with advice on local policies and agreements.
John Bangs NUT Election Campaign - Information on NUT General Secretary elections and the campaign to elect John Bangs including position statements.
Somerset branch of the NUT - Somerset Division National Union of Teachers. Includes local news, employment policies and advice for members.
Westminster Teachers Association - Westminster branch of the National Union of Teachers. Includes news, policies and health and safety information.
Socialist Teachers Alliance - Organisation to campaign for socialist policies within the National Union of Teachers. Includes news, campaigns and events.
Gloucestershire NUT - County association of the National Union of Teachers with news, advice and training opportunities for teachers and lecturers.
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 National Union of Teachers "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach National Union of Teachers
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 National Union of Teachers A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove National Union of Teachers
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson National Union of Teachers I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) National Union of Teachers
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor National Union of Teachers Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live National Union of Teachers Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 National Union of Teachers Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar National Union of Teachers
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly National Union of Teachers All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland National Union of Teachers
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 National Union of Teachers The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant National Union of Teachers
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey National Union of Teachers "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk National Union of Teachers
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President National Union of Teachers 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 love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) National Union of Teachers
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) National Union of Teachers Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard National Union of Teachers
