Gems

Justin Welby:

There are clues as to his attitude from Bishop Welby's first address to the 
diocesan synod in Durham in which he said he believed in "holy anarchy".

"It is anarchy within an organisation, a sense of diversity, of freedom, and 
 empowering that must move us away from a top-down, centralising, managerial 
 approach that is the curse of the Church of England."

Silent

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

Hell

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Mediocrity

Mediocrity is a sin.

Doing it

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart

Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courages is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
Theodore Roossevelt

Leadership

...if, after attempting unsuccessfully to persuade those in power of their needs, they are to remain silent, this would entail a serious breach of one of the cardinal principles of leadership, namely, the integrity of command.

Most officers understand that, in any military organisation, the man at the top must remain loyal to the men at the bottom if he is to command their respect; if he cannot do that with a clear conscience , then he should resign.
Rear Admiral Ron Holley

Power

You can't trust people who have worked their way up to power. People born to power and people who, like parents, have power thrust upon them are a different matter.
Mumsnet

Dunning-Kruger

The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will rate their own ability higher than relatively more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding.

Drink

I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan

Drink 2

He thought he saw an albatross That fluttered 'round the lamp. He looked again and saw it was A penny postage stamp. "You'd best be getting home," he said, "The nights are rather damp."
-- ???

Inconsistency

As a human being I claim the right to be widely inconsistent.
-- John Peel

Safe Sex

The only way to have safe sex is to abstain.
From drinking.
-- Wendy Liebman

Men's Health?

Worry is the first time you can't do it a second time; panic is the second time you can't do it the first time.
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Simple Tastes

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde.

Perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.''
Antoine de Saint Exupery

Irony

The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world
Tim Fletcher (at least, it was on his email).

Data on the Internet

Q. Is it safe to put my personal details online?
A. Yes especially when buying as most shopping sites are usually secure.
-- British Telecom (c) 2000

Tone of Voice

Now then young man, don't look at me in that tone of voice!
-- Brian Clough

Beginning

To begin is to be half way there.
-- Plato

Simplicity

Seek simplicity and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead (1919)

Death

I know everyone has to die, but I thought in my case they might make an exception.
-- Said by Charlton Heston a film...

Anger

One cannot be angry when looking at a penguin.
-- John Ruskin, art critic and theorist.

Love

Research, n.:

Consider Columbus:
He didn't know where he was going.
When he got there he didn't know where he was.
When he got back he didn't know where he had been.
And he did it all on someone else's money.
-- Dale Lovelace, Red Hat, Inc., dale@redhat.com

Faith

Belief is a poor substitute for thought.

Second Childhood

"Our Childhoods never end,
they simply move on"
(A Toast to Life)

Heavy Drinking

When you drink as much as I do you have to start early.
(From film, "Judas Kiss".)

Alternatively...

Carpe Noctum

Life

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans
-- John Lennon

Temptation

The only way to deal with temptation is to yield to it.
-- Oscar Wilde

Where we are

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde

Excess

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom
-- William Blake (more)

Puritanism

"Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be enjoying themselves."
-- H.L. Mencken.

Freedom of Expression

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
-- Salman Rushdie

God's Truth

Even more basic, I would suggest, than either of the questions ``Does God exist?'' or ``What do we mean by `exist'?'' is that of ``Do we really any longer care?'' More.
- Anna Freeman, Cardiff. (The Guardian, ...)

Barking Mad

It is now a sackable offence to hold religious beliefs that somebody else finds rediculous: More.
- Richard Dawkins, Letter to Independent, 1999.

Stolen from Miles Kington:

Convenience food: a kind of pre-cooked food suitable for throwing into the nearest convenience.
Saturation bombing: A technique use by the Americans to ensure that they hit the enemy as well as their own troops.

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