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Carlisle and Eden Millennium Volunteers - Local group of a UK initiative to enable young people to volunteer in their community. Current, projects, activities, and how to get involved.
Cumbria Youth Alliance - A network of voluntary youth organisations working with and for young people in Cumbria.
Connexions Cumbria - An online careers and youth service provides help and advice for young people aged 13-19. Two site guides lead you through a range of topics including work experience, further education, applying for jobs, health issues, drugs, and bullying.
Cumbria Net Goths - List of 'goths' in Cumbria with their profiles, and descriptions of shops and places they like.
The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Youth If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Youth "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Youth Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Youth Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Youth "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Youth In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Youth Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Youth Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Youth I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Youth "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Youth Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Youth Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Youth Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Youth The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Youth then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Youth "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Youth "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Youth "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your "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) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Youth Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Youth I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Youth Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Youth
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