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Lookit-up Business Directory - Business directory with featured listings and advertisements for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Southampton.
Dorset Chamber of Commerce & Industry - An independent organisation established and run by local business people. Includes service and membership information.
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Co-operative Development Agency - Offering business advice, funding and marketing support in setting up a co-operative. Includes news and joining information.
Dorset Photo Models - A Directory of professional and amateur models, photographers and agencies focusing on models of Dorset and the South of England. Includes portfolios and contact information.
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Business and Economy The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Business and Economy
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Business and Economy "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) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Business and Economy
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Business and Economy All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Business and Economy America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau 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 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Business and Economy
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Business and Economy The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Business and Economy
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Business and Economy "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Business and Economy
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Business and Economy First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Business and Economy A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Business and Economy
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Business and Economy 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 The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Business and Economy
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Business and Economy "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Business and Economy
