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	Merseyside Police - Site contains information on the force, appeals for help on current cases and includes details of the crimestoppers initiative.
	Rape Crisis for Women on Merseyside - Charity providing women with counselling, support and information on sexual violence. Information about their services.
	Yahoo! Groups: MerseyActivist - Bulletin board publicising local political/environmental/trade union/human rights campaigns and activities.
	International Police Association: Merseyside North Branch - Organisation for serving and retired officers. Features a brief branch history, a newsletter, photos, and information about activities, supplies, worldwide IPA houses and membership discounts, plus a guestbook, and links to branches and individuals.
	Safer Merseyside Partnership - Crime reduction coalition. Information about their aims projects.
	Merseyside CND - Group involved in non-violent campaigns to rid the world of nuclear and other indiscriminate weapons. Newsletters, articles and contact information for other Merseyside groups.
	Scousers' World - Yahoo! group for Merseyside folk, wherever they may be.
	Western Front Association (Merseyside Branch) - Aims to further interest in the period 1914-18 to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of those of both sides who served in the Great War. Includes information about meetings.
	Neighbourhood and Home Watch - Crime prevention links, hints and contacts.
	Merseyside Youth Association - Organisation providing opportunities and support for young people and those who work with young people. Information about centres, projects, activities and room hire.
	Merseyside Drugs Council - Provides non-judgmental services to help drug users and others affected by drug use. Information about their projects, centres, aims, job vacancies, and the history of the organisation.
	Merseyside Third Sector Technology Centre (3tc) - Charity aiming to make information and communications technology (ICT) accessible to voluntary and community organisations. Includes news, how to donate, job vacancies and information about services including training, hardware sales, conference facilities and design.

I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Society and Culture Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Society and Culture There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Society and Culture My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "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) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Society and Culture "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Society and Culture Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Society and Culture The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Society and Culture "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Society and Culture I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell 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 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Society and Culture Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |