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Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) - OILC was formed in 1988 in the aftermath of the Piper Alpha tragedy in which 167 offshore workers were killed. We campaign for better safety and conditions of employment for those who work in the offshore oil and gas industry. In 1992, OILC became a registered trade union since which time 5,000 offshore workers have joined. We produce a range of publications including Blowout Magazine.
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Offshore Industry Liaison Committee We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Offshore Industry Liaison Committee We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Offshore Industry Liaison Committee "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Offshore Industry Liaison Committee "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Offshore Industry Liaison Committee There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Offshore Industry Liaison Committee The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Offshore Industry Liaison Committee A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld Offshore Industry Liaison Committee I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Offshore Industry Liaison Committee Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Offshore Industry Liaison Committee Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Offshore Industry Liaison Committee War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Offshore Industry Liaison Committee An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry "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) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Offshore Industry Liaison Committee "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper Offshore Industry Liaison Committee Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Offshore Industry Liaison Committee The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Offshore Industry Liaison Committee There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Offshore Industry Liaison Committee It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Offshore Industry Liaison Committee Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Offshore Industry Liaison Committee Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Offshore Industry Liaison Committee "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Offshore Industry Liaison Committee I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Offshore Industry Liaison Committee
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