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Learning and Skills Council - Responsible for funding and planning education and training for over 16-year-olds in England. Provides countrywide information on training plans and work opportunities.

The Countryside Agency - The statutory body working to conserve and enhance the English countryside and to promote social equity and economic opportunity for the people who live there.

Housing Corporation - Government agency providing social housing, with news, resources and links to official publications.

Boundary Commission for England - Non-departmental public body which reviews and advises on the parliamentary boundaries in England. Brief information about the Commission and details of its Review Areas and full recommendations are available.

ADAPT Westmister - EU-funded project that provides a programme of training and development for the staff of MPs, at Westminster and in the constituencies. Includes event listings, guides, notice board, and information on induction and representation.

Connexions - Resources for anyone involved in delivering the government's Connexions initiative, including advisors, employers and parents. Details of the initiative, publications and how to get involved.

English Partnerships - Coordinates land and usage plans in England. Site provides details of ongoing programmes, partnerships, environmental activities, funding, best practice and operations.

Advisory Committees on Telecommunications - Independent non-departmental public body responsible for advising the Government on issues which affect telecoms consumers in England. Provides information about CCE and its work, with copies of its reports and its publications. [Archive]

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Government And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Government The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Government In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Government A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting Government "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Government "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Government "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Government "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Government Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Government Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Government A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Government "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) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Government Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Government Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Government "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Government If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Government Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Government If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston 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 "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) Government A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Government I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Government Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Government
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