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The British Midlands - Promotional description of central England and services offered to companies, by development agency aiming to attract inward investment into the region from North America, with contacts selectable by State.
England plc - Guide to the nine EU Regions, including economic overview, statistics, governance, development, commercial property, finance, telecommunication, transport and tourism, with featured organisations and links to northern resources maintained in Manchester.
England's South Coast - Introduces potential for the coastal areas of Dorset and Hampshire.
Village Retail Services Association - ViRSA Educational Trust supports rural communities in efforts to keep their village shops and post offices. Offers advice to groups on opening community owned ventures.
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Economic Development "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Economic Development There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Economic Development Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Economic Development There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Economic Development The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Economic Development >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Economic Development If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Economic Development Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Economic Development Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Economic Development "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Economic Development Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Economic Development The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee "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) Economic Development It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Economic Development A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Economic Development Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Economic Development Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Economic Development The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason Economic Development Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Economic Development A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Economic Development The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Economic Development "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Economic Development
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