Quotations

“There’s only one wavefunction.”

“Don’t tell me, show me.”
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“Easy open door.
Push to operate.”Millburngate shopping centre

“Please push this door.”
ITS, University of Durham

“The stars shine only in darkness”
Anne Conway

“Mantra”
via Sheila Byers

“Good judgement comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgement.”
A A Milne

“Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit a social science”
W. H. Auden

“The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play second fiddle with enthusiasm – that’s the problem. Yet, if there is no one to play second fiddle, there is no harmony.”
Leonard Bernstein

“Everything that is counted does not matter; everything that matters can not be counted.”
Einstein?

“I hate the way in which purple robs red of its lustre: I hate the way the airs of Cheng pervert correct music: and I hate the way in which sharp tongues overthrow both states and families!”
Confucius

“I have spent the whole day without food and the whole night without sleep in order to mediatate. It was of no use. It is better to learn!”
K’ung-fu-tzu

“We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.”
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) Politicians and Politics (?)

“The people of Britain … I never said they were a Democracy … I said they are what is called a Democracy.”
Saki, The Comments of Moung Ka

You don’t just give people what they want if it’s not good for them!
first episode of “Yes_Minister”

“a professor – having the habit of not being able to stop talking at the right time”Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Chapter 4: Loose Ends pg 130

“Think much, speak little, and write less”
Giovanni Torriano, Italian Proverbs. 1666

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”Henry David Thoreau

“Who has the greatest claim on me with regard to service and kind treatment?”
mother

When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving advice
you have not done what I have asked
…
please listen and just hear me
and if you want to talk
wait a minute for your turn and
I will listen to you
Anon Listen

“The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
George Bernard Shaw

“A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once,
but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.”
Joe Hill

“Among all those quasi-professional businesses which like to
refer to their customers as clients …
Technically, you can fire your agent …”
Raymond Chandler, Ten Per Cent of your Life. 1952

“Showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made”
Raymond Chandler, Writers in Hollywood. 1945

“Sha is unhealthy ch’i, and it brings us ill-health and bad luck. Sha likes to travel along fast, straight paths where it can accelerate and then drive through you at great speed. The difference between sha and ch’i is the same as the difference between a straight canal and a gentle meandering river.”
Richard Craze, Feng Shui

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting ink.”
George Orwell

Certainty, not doubt, is the opposite of faith.
The first act of love is the giving of attention.
Dallas Willard

A saint is …
Someone The Light shines through.

The Nativity
John Bell

From Hereabout Hill
Seàn Rafferty

I am thankful
The Sacrament of Love
SLOW DANCE
Anon – female teenage cancer sufferer in New York, c/o Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461

“Sir Isaac Newton told us why an apple falls down from the sky
And from this fact, it’s very plain, all other objects do the same

A brick, a bolt, a bar, a cup, invariably fall down, not up
And every common working tool is governed by the self-same rule

So when you handle tools up there, let your watchword be “Take Care”
If at work, you drop a spanner, it travels in a downward manner

At work, a fifth of accidents or more, illustrate old Newton’s law
But one thing he forgot to add, the damage won’t be half as bad
if you are wearing proper clothes, especially on your head and toes
These hats and shoes are there to save the wearer from an early grave

So best feet forward and take care about the kind of shoes you wear
It’s better to be sure, than dead, so get a hat and keep your head

Don’t think to go without is brave; the effects of gravity can be grave.”

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