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Bristol Green Parties - Information, policies, contact details for branches in the East, South and West of the city.
Williams, Stephen - Contact details and campaign news from Bristol West Liberal Democrat Propective Parliamentary Candidate.
Berry, Roger - Kingswood Labour MP whose constituency includes part of Bristol: diary, contact details.
Socialist Health Association - West of England Branch - Meetings diary and links from local organisation dealing with the politics of health care.
Bristol Socialist Party - Information about local meetings and activities, links, contact e-mail address.
Bristol University Conservative Association - Includes information on how to join and on the aims of BUCA.
Bristol West Liberal Democrats - News from local Liberal Democrats: photos, articles, archives, downloads, contact information.
Bristol North West Conservative Association - Provides a profile of the constituency and lists local campaigns.
Bristol Labour Party - Covers the work of the Labour group on the City Council.
Tallis, Roy - Independent councillor for Cabot Ward. News, information, issues, views and feedback.
Bristol Socialist Alliance - Manifesto, campaigns, links, events, contact details from alternative to New Labour.
Davey, Valerie - Labour MP for Bristol West. News, biography, information about membership, constituency activities.
Primarolo, Dawn - Labour MP for Bristol South. News, biography, membership and constituency information.
Cabot Ward Liberal Democrats - Features information about the ward, plus news, councillor profile and forum.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Politics There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Politics There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Politics "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Politics If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Politics There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Politics "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..." ( There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Politics The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Politics "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Politics 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. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Politics Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Politics "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Politics Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde Politics If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Politics When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Politics The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Politics "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Politics "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 Politics After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Politics The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Politics Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Politics I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Politics
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