Mersey Basin Campaign - Government-backed partnership aiming to improve the rivers, streams, and canals of the Mersey Basin. Information about activities and publications.
The Mersey Forest - Community forest project promoting varied environments and habitats in the region. Information about activities, achievements, and getting involved.
Clean Merseyside Centre - A programme to promote recycling in the area. Information about the organisation, the markets for different materials, business and community services, targets, and a newsletter.
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "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 Science and Environment
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Science and Environment If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Science and Environment
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Science and Environment "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Science and Environment
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Science and Environment
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Science and Environment Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Science and Environment
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Science and Environment You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "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) Science and Environment
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Science and Environment History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Science and Environment
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Science and Environment "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Science and Environment
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Science and Environment Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Science and Environment
"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) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Science and Environment There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Science and Environment
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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
not allow Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Science and Environment "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Science and Environment
