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	Age Concern Wirral - Promotes the welfare of older people and their perception in society. They generate income to provide essential services.
	My Wirral - Local and family history site. Covering the surnames Fraser, Salisbury, Purves, Davies, Marston, and Shuker. Includes photos, and brief histories of local towns.
	Wirral and West Lancashire 1100th Viking Anniversary Home Page - A collection of TV and radio broadcasts and media clippings about local Viking settlements. Also includes information about books, events, and a genetic survey investigating the ancestry of local residents.
	Wirral Disabled Parents Support Group - A group of like minded and disabled people who would like to support any disabled parents in Wirral with regard to every aspect of their disability and ensure they have a good quality of life.
	Wirral Association for Disability - Umbrella organisation for disability support groups. Includes information on the Disability Living Allowance, the Shopmobility scheme and the Wirral disability register. [Requires Java]
	Wirral Autistic Society - Provides residential, family support and day services. Information about activities on offer, properties, and job vacancies.
	Wirral Advanced Motorcyclists - Helping people to pass the IAM test and enjoy biking. Event diary, course information, and news.
	Quakers in Wirral and Chester - Introduction to the Religious Society of Friends, information about meetings in Birkenhead, Chester and Heswall, and room hire.
	Flame FM - Local Christian radio station broadcasting for short durations. Information about programmes, aims and how you can help.
	Youth Exchange Wirral - Forum of voluntary sector groups working with young people. Includes information about aims and activities, and funding advice.
	Wirral Voluntary and Community Sectors Network - Promotes voluntary action. Advice and information about how they can help groups and volunteers.
	Let's Talk Rubbish! - Information about recycling and waste reduction in the Wirral, for adults, children, businesses and schools.

An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Society and Culture I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "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) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Society and Culture I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Society and Culture "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Society and Culture If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Society and Culture Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Society and Culture You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Society and Culture 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 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Society and Culture The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Society and Culture "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Society and Culture If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Society and Culture Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" 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