"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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‘a new symbol for europe’ installation in Den Haag, the Netherlands image © designboom
the current european flag with its twelve identical golden stars placed in a circle on a blue background, was designed in 1955. since then society in europe has changed.
Nowadays various cultures live and work together in a relative small area. in the last 50 years europe has become a complex maze of identities. what is the impact of this new society with its diversity in culture, language and traditions on europe’s identity and how can that identity take shape? what [
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Nice manners, big kitchen, government by Boden. It’s all for the good of everyone. If only poorer people could be as nice to each other as this in their little ‘communities’, things would be so much lovelier!
It’s like a dream. When old class warriors like Dennis Skinner pop up to randomly abuse the overlords, it feels like cheering a sad old bloke on Britain’s Got Talent, not because he can win, but because he has the gumption.
The new poshness is the real break with Thatcherism and its loads-of-money [
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No matter how long you know them, what you do for them or how close you are to them Scottish people you know will one day call you an ‘English Bastard’. It doesn’t matter what nationality you actually are and even being Scottish will not render anyone immune from this. They cannot help themselves. I was taught this all my life and have never had cause to doubt its veracity.
If you think I am talking about you, I am probably doing exactly that.
More than £400million a year is being raised by police and town halls targeting minor ‘middle-class’ crimes.
They are hitting millions of people with tickets for speeding, parking, litter and even putting out bins on the wrong day.
The ‘offenders’ are being caught using a range of increasingly advanced surveillance techniques, including spy cameras.
The amount raked in from ‘soft crimes’ includes £330million in parking fines, £100million from speeding tickets and £12million from spot fines for offences such as over-filling a dustbin so its lid will not close.
Speed cameras alone snare more than 1.4million people a year.
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It’s hard to be humble when you come from Stoke Newington – as many of the residents prove. Not affluent: mean, mode or median? Obviously not all (or even many) of them grew up there, but house prices now and the deceit of short-term rentals around the parish of St Mary’s each time a scion hits Year-6 will embed the burgeoning ‘new priest-class’ there.
Also, Hackney improvements today coincide with opening of 3 academies – ie. schools not run by the local authority, an authority that hosted the first school in Britain closed under special measures. With the loss of the [
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Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European engagement with the native peoples of the Americas. It’s profoundly silly because engineering a happy ending demands a plot so stupid and predictable that it rips the heart out of the film. The fate of the native Americans is much closer to the story told in another new film, The Road, in which [
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I went to a cash-machine recently and, as I find as I get older I take more time over it, had to lean bike against wall, struggle for stuff in panniers and so on blah blah, I was getting in a bit of a faff.
They exhibit pretty bad feng shui by necessity these gadgets forcing you to stand with your back to a busy street, usually on an uneven pavement, cars and buses in the road, sunlight on the scratched screen, people on foot, buggies, bicycles and sholleys on the pavement and a host of horror stories [
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“And the criteria for engagement with Buddhist, Hindu, Parsee, Christian and atheist groups?
No, rather treat the Muslims groups like all the others don’t engage with any of them, don’t treat folks as sectarian blocks, rather treat them all the same under the law” [LINK]
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“Fear is the only reason that Muslim groups receive special treatment. Why else would the representatives of around two million people have money and time lavished on them in such an obscenely disproportionate way, while no one much bothers about the peaceable [
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“The row is the latest in the South West to involve second home owners. The sports presenter Steve Rider has been involved in a planning dispute after he objected to proposals for affordable housing in a picturesque village in Devon.
Mr Rider, the anchor of ITV’s football coverage, lodged a formal objection to plans by a charitable trust for six cottages in the riverside village of East Portlemouth, saying the development threatened the community’s ‘peace and solitude’. The plans were later approved.
Residents of Helford, Cornwall, many of them reported to be second home owners, have successfully challenged [
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“The peace process, instituted by the British and Irish governments in the early 1990s, has transformed Northern Ireland into possibly the only state on Earth which is built around managing attitudes to the past rather than engaging people in debates about the future.”
(Via IRA splinter groups: ghosts from history? | spiked: .)
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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