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Weeks in 2016 edit
- Week 1
| “ | ... You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are ... | ” |
| “ | ... Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius ... | ” |
- Week 2
| “ | ... You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are ... | ” |
| “ | ... Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius ... | ” |
- Week 3
| “ | ... Life's more amusing than we thought ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have taken a firm resolution to conquer or to die and stand my ground as long I have a man remaining with me ... | ” |
- Week 4
| “ | ... Life's more amusing than we thought ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have taken a firm resolution to conquer or to die and stand my ground as long I have a man remaining with me ... | ” |
- Week 5
| “ | ... There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist ... | ” |
| “ | ... for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself ... |
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- Week 6
| “ | ... There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist ... | ” |
| “ | ... for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself ... |
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- Week 7
| “ | ... Books are a finer world within the world ... | ” |
| “ | ... All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education ... | ” |
- Week 8
| “ | ... Books are a finer world within the world ... | ” |
| “ | ... All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education ... | ” |
- Week 9
| “ | ... The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ... | ” |
| “ | ... This is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it? ... | ” |
- Week 10
| “ | ... The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ... | ” |
| “ | ... This is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it? ... | ” |
- Week 11
| “ | ... I'm not young enough to know everything. ... | ” |
| “ | ... When one door closes another door opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ... | ” |
- Week 12
| “ | ... I'm not young enough to know everything. ... | ” |
| “ | ... When one door closes another door opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ... | ” |
- Week 13
| “ | ... Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human. ... | ” |
- Week 14
| “ | ... Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ... | ” |
| “ | ... The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human. ... | ” |
- Week 15
| “ | ... If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it? ... | ” |
| “ | ... The artist cannot attain to mastery in his art unless he is endowed in the highest degree with the faculty of invention. ... | ” |
- Week 16
| “ | ... If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it? ... | ” |
| “ | ... The artist cannot attain to mastery in his art unless he is endowed in the highest degree with the faculty of invention. ... | ” |
- Week 17
| “ | ... Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether ... | ” |
| “ | ... Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community ... | ” |
- Week 18
| “ | ... Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether ... | ” |
| “ | ... Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community ... | ” |
- Week 19
| “ | ... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair ... | ” |
- Week 20
| “ | ... A good gulp of whisky at bedtime – it’s not scientific but it helps ... | ” |
| “ | ... I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair ... | ” |
- Week 21
| “ | ... London is the devil’s drawing-room ... | ” |
| “ | ... Scottishness is not a pedigree lineage, it’s a mongrel tradition ... | ” |
- Week 22
| “ | ... London is the devil’s drawing-room ... | ” |
| “ | ... Scottishness is not a pedigree lineage, it’s a mongrel tradition ... | ” |
- Week 23
| “ | ... Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes ... | ” |
| “ | ... The strangest thing I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves ... | ” |
- — David Livingstone (On central Africa)
- Week 24
| “ | ... Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes ... | ” |
| “ | ... The strangest thing I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves ... | ” |
- — David Livingstone (On central Africa)
- Week 25
| “ | ... The truth shouldn't hurt unless it ought to ... | ” |
| “ | ... The Creator , if he exists, has a specific preference for beetles ... | ” |
- Week 26
| “ | ... The truth shouldn't hurt unless it ought to ... | ” |
| “ | ... The Creator , if he exists, has a specific preference for beetles ... | ” |
- Week 27
| “ | ... You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste ... | ” |
- — J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw
| “ | ... We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else ... | ” |
- Week 28
| “ | ... You ought to be roasted alive, though even then you would not be to my taste ... | ” |
- — J. M. Barrie speaking to George Bernard Shaw
| “ | ... We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else ... | ” |
- Week 29
| “ | ... All money is a matter of belief ... | ” |
| “ | ... You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass ... | ” |
- Week 30
| “ | ... All money is a matter of belief ... | ” |
| “ | ... You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass ... | ” |
- Week 31
| “ | ... By creating we think, by living we learn ... | ” |
| “ | ... You only have to spend an afternoon with a child to realise that most of them, without even trying, are poets ... | ” |
- Week 32
| “ | ... By creating we think, by living we learn ... | ” |
| “ | ... You only have to spend an afternoon with a child to realise that most of them, without even trying, are poets ... | ” |
- Week 33
| “ | ... There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent ... | ” |
| “ | ... The kilt, being a practical outdoor garment, failed him only once, and that occurred during a short-lived interest in bee-keeping ... | ” |
- Week 34
| “ | ... There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent ... | ” |
| “ | ... The kilt, being a practical outdoor garment, failed him only once, and that occurred during a short-lived interest in bee-keeping ... | ” |
- Week 35
| “ | ... The Heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions ... | ” |
| “ | ... As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Tony Blair as two cheeks of the same arse ... | ” |
- Week 36
| “ | ... The Heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions ... | ” |
| “ | ... As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Tony Blair as two cheeks of the same arse ... | ” |
- Week 37
| “ | ... It's all humbug ... | ” |
| “ | ... The essential beginning of all national uprisings is that poets should believe ... | ” |
- Week 38
| “ | ... It's all humbug ... | ” |
| “ | ... The essential beginning of all national uprisings is that poets should believe ... | ” |
- Week 39
| “ | ... A good nationalist must first of all be a good internationalist ... | ” |
| “ | ... What is called 'Communism' in backward countries is hunger becoming articulate ... | ” |
- Week 40
| “ | ... A good nationalist must first of all be a good internationalist ... | ” |
| “ | ... What is called 'Communism' in backward countries is hunger becoming articulate ... | ” |
- Week 41
| “ | ... Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men. ... | ” |
- — James Boswell responding to Samuel Johnson:
("In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to Horses.")
- Week 42
| “ | ... Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special. ... | ” |
| “ | ... Maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men. ... | ” |
- — James Boswell responding to Samuel Johnson:
("In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to Horses.")
- Week 43
| “ | ... A ripple of laughter is worth an ocean of tears. To laugh is to be free of worry ... | ” |
| “ | ... It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important ... | ” |
- Week 44
| “ | ... A ripple of laughter is worth an ocean of tears. To laugh is to be free of worry ... | ” |
| “ | ... It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important ... | ” |
- Week 45
| “ | ... Some folks are wise and some are otherwise ... | ” |
| “ | ... It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in restrospect ... | ” |
- Week 46
| “ | ... Some folks are wise and some are otherwise ... | ” |
| “ | ... It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in restrospect ... | ” |
- Week 47
| “ | ... Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations ... | ” |
| “ | ... Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice ... | ” |
- Week 48
| “ | ... Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations ... | ” |
| “ | ... Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice ... | ” |
- Week 49
| “ | ... The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not be found out ... | ” |
| “ | ... For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself ... | ” |
- Week 50
| “ | ... The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not be found out ... | ” |
| “ | ... For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself ... | ” |
- Week 51
| “ | ... Avarice, the spur of industry ... | ” |
| “ | ... No enemy is half so fatal as a friend estranged ... | ” |
- Week 52
| “ | ... Avarice, the spur of industry ... | ” |
| “ | ... No enemy is half so fatal as a friend estranged ... | ” |
- Week 53
| “ | ... Avarice, the spur of industry ... | ” |
| “ | ... No enemy is half so fatal as a friend estranged ... | ” |