Tony Crook Community Locum - Community locum pharmacist working in the Manchester and Cheshire areas of England.
Health Action Zone Evaluation (HAZE) Project - A project to bring about positive change in the evaluation practices of organisations for the improvement of health for the people of Manchester, Salford and Trafford, UK.
The Calm Zone - The Campaign Against Living Miserably, raises awareness of depression amongst young men across Manchester, Merseyside, Cumbria and Bedfordshire.
North West Air Ambulance - Information about the helicopter and news of its life saving missions. Also includes information about fundraising activities.
Tameside and Glossop Health and Social Care - Information on local GPs, pharmacists, dentists, opticians & NHS Trusts providing hospital, community and mental health services, and Tameside Social Services.
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust - Ambulance service covering Merseyside and Cheshire. Information about services, the trust board, support services, news, performance reports, history and job vacancies.
Francis House Childrens' Hospice - Caring for children with a short life expectancy. We offer the families of very sick children a respite from their role as carers and give children a loving home from home
North West Public Health Observatory - One of nine regional organisations providing local agencies, populations and networks with public health data and information to inform and shape health policies and best practise.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Health Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Health
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Health I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Health
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh 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 Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Health 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 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Health
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Health Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Health
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Health "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Health
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Health Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Health
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Health
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Health "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Health
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Health It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Health
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Health My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Health
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Health May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Health
