Hereford and Worcester Fire Brigade - Provides a range of information on services for local people, business, and schools . Includes brigade overview, safety advice, news and incidents, and a children's page .
Herefordshire Health Clubs and Gyms - Listings of most of the major health, sports and leisure clubs in the area, together with links to club homepages.
Herefordshire Mental Health - Details services provided by the voluntary, independent and statutory sector as well as giving information on the national context in which mental health services are delivered and some of the key paradigms guiding current and future devlopments.
Family Drug Support Herefordshire - Provides information and confidential support for families who are concerned about possible or actual drug use.
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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-- H.L. Mencken When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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- Buckminster Health
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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-- Maya Angelou Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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-- Anonymous Health
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
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-- Pearl Williams The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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-- Judith Viorst Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Health "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
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- Honore de Balzac Health
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
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-- Yiddish Proverb Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
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-- Peter Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
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-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Health
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
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-- Mother Teresa Health
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
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-- George Benard Shaw In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Health "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Health
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "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) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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-- Oscar Wilde Health
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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-- Mark Twain Health To teach is to learn twice.
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-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Health
