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East Midlands Development Agency - The Agency's brief includes job creation, skills improvement, increasing competitiveness and attacking social exclusion.
Government Office for the East Midlands - Official government office bringing together the regional operations of the Departments for Education and Skills; Work and Pensions; Trade and Industry; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport, Local Government and the Regions. The Home Office, Police, National Health Service and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport are also represented.
Tagish - East Midlands - Links to local government sites in the region.
East Midlands Regional European Office - Provides information concerning this region. [based in Brussels]
UK MEPs - East Midlands - Contact information for Members of the European Parliament.
DEFRA - East Midlands Regional Chapter - Geographic area and physical content; environment; social issues; rural business; impact of previous MAFF and non-MAFF schemes; proposed strategy, objectives and priorities for action. England Rural Development Programme from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The Countryside Agency: East Midlands - Working to achieve the best for the English countryside through conservation, research, and influencing central and local government. Includes the area's State of the Countryside Report and the Rural Services Survey.
East Midlands Regional Assembly - Includes details about news, events, meetings and forums, marketing the region, sustainable development, publications, discussion forum and links.
Highways Agency - East Midlands - The transport system: programmes and studies.
MEP: Chris Heaton-Harris - Explains the role of the European Parliament and its committee on Culture, lists the election pledges on which he was elected, and provides biographical details.
MEP: Roger Helmer - 'Why Britain Should Keep the Pound' and other speeches. Also comments on european issues, provides a parliamentary diary and an MEP biography.
East Midlands European Information Network - Information about European issues as they affect the region, with directories of further resources and news. Supported by the European Commission Representation in the UK.
Leicestershire and Rutland Parish Councils - Framework for hosting information about these councils and/or linking to external sites. Visitors may register to maintain their own council's information.
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history 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. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Government Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Government The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Government Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Government When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Government If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Government Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Government Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Government It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller Government You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Government "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson 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 Government The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Government Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Government If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Government To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Government "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Government Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "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 Government "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Government I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Government When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Government I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Government "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Government
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