Careflight - Air Ambulance contactable 24 Hours a day, Patient transfer, in-flight care, long range patient transfer. Based at Stansted.
Essex Nursing Homes - Contact information for residential care and nursing homes.
Essex Health and Fitness Clubs - A listing of most of the major health, sports and leisure clubs in Essex, with addresses and facilities.
Oasys Tanning - Based in Leigh-on-Sea and Eastwood and offering beauty treatments and beauty and tanning products. Services, products, prices and bookings.
Essex Mental Health Services - Offered by a partnership of agencies to inform of the services available in this field. Includes well-being, what constitutes a problem and a directory.
MEDICS - Mid-Essex Doctors Immediate Care Scheme. Provides emergency medical support from Stump Cross in the North-West corner to Rayleigh in the South of the county. How and why it operates, costs involved and how to help.
"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) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Health Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Health
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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-- Miriam Robbins "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Health Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
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-- Tom Robbins Health
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Health Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "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) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Health "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Health
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Health "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Health
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Health A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Health
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Health Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Health
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "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) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Health "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) 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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Health
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-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Health You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Health
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Health Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Health
