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Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber - 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.
Euronet - Yorkshire and Humber - Online newsletter for European Funding. Agenda 2000, news, date, people and Euro projects. From the Government Office for Yorkshire and Humber.
Yorkshire and Humber Assembly - Aims: Providing a stronger democratic voice for the region; promoting the economic, social and environmental well-being of the region and its people; supporting local government in the region.
Community Fund - Yorkshire & The Humber Office - Information on applying for a grant from the charity and voluntary group funding organisation.
Yorkshire Forward - Charged with developing and implementing a Regional Economic Strategy that will transform Yorkshire and Humber into a world class economy. Formed in April 1999 by the Regional Development Agency.
Tagish - Yorkshire and The Humber - Links to local government in the region.
Oultwood - East Yorkshire and Humberside - Directory of local government web sites using clickable maps and lists.
DEFRA - Yorkshire and Humber 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: Yorkshire and the Humber - 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.
Yorkshire and The Humber European Information Relay - 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.
Yorkshire and Humberside Pollution Advisory Council - Grouping of local authorities dealing with pollution issues in the region. Details of who they are, what they do, how to join and current initiatives.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Government Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. 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(Jack Handey) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Government Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Government Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." 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Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Government Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Government If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Government Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Government Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Government Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Government "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." 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(Karl Marx) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac "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 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Government You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. 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