G.A.G. - The Glebelands Action Group, is a local group in St Julians, Newport, campaigning against the building of a new school on the Glebelands. It argues that the former landfill site is unsafe for the proposed use.
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Activism What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Activism
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Activism Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Activism
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Activism Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Activism
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl 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 Activism A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Activism
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Activism "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Activism
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "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 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Activism There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Activism
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Activism "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "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 "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Activism
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Activism "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Activism
"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 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Activism We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Activism
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Activism To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Activism
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Activism "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Activism
