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Save The Children Fund UK North West Fundraisers - Volunteer owned and run site about the work of 'Save the Children'. Related information and details of the many branches and charity shops in Merseyside, Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.
Regional Accents - Sound based web site with a variety of recorded accents from across the north west.
Jigsaw Independent Fostering Agency Ltd. - Independent voluntary organisation, dedicated solely to the provision of high quality foster placements. Children and young people from 0 to 18 years.
Creative Chemistry Introductions - Introductions agency for creative people who often work alone and not being mainstream society can find it difficult meeting compatible people.
Labour North West - MPs, MEPs, Local Authorities and information about Labour Party activities in the north west of England.
North West Childcare - Provide childcare recruitment services, including nursery nurses, nannies, baby sitters and home help. Information for families, and prospective carers.
YPNET NW - Chemical Industries Association Young Persons' Network in Northwest England. Profile, event calendar, minutes, news and forum.
Boys and Girls Welfare Society - Children's charity serving the North West of England. Information about their residential, education, adoption and social work services; also their fundraising and events.
Bringing Britain Together - Local Liberal Democrats' European election campaign with candidates and policies.
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Society and Culture We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Society and Culture "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Society and Culture I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Society and Culture When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Society and Culture The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Society and Culture Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Society and Culture "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society and Culture You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Society and Culture Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture
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