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The Yorkshire Awards - Recognising those who have had an impact upon Yorkshire and its people in some way, demonstrating their affection for and commitment to the County.
The Yorkshire Posts - For Yorkshire expatriates throughout the world - news, contacts, chat, pictures, and links to Yorkshire sites.
Stop the War - Yorkshire CND - A broad based coalition to coordinate the anti-war campaign in Yorkshire. Details of activities and events.
The Yorkshire Continuum Project - Supports culture, heritage, arts and entertainment and voluntary organisations in the region. Information about the project and its supporters, and contacts.
Yorkshire Expats Forum - Bulletin board for expats in Yorkshire. Also includes a links page.
Random Magazine - Gigs listings, news, gossip and reviews for around Yorkshire.
Yorksview - History, geography, customs and culture of Yorkshire written by two Yorkshiremen who know and love the place.
Exclusive Introductions - Dating agency for professional people in this area. Details of how contact is made and membership fees.
Yorkshire Forum - Online discussion forum and articles about the region.
The Singles Agency - Dating introduction agency. Personal photo profile ads for single people seriously looking to date Yorkshire ladies and gentlemen.
Bonds Introductions - Dating agency. Includes contact form.
Ayup Online Magazine - Online magazine featuring Yorkshire news, comment, biographies, sport, music, politics and all sorts of nonsense.
United Reformed Church Yorkshire Synod - Contacts, geographical coverage, local churches, districts, diary, areas of work and news.
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Society and Culture Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "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." Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Society and Culture Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Society and Culture You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Society and Culture "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Society and Culture Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Society and Culture "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Society and Culture Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Society and Culture Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Society and Culture I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Society and Culture I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi 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. Society and Culture Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous 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 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Society and Culture Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Society and Culture In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Society and Culture "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Society and Culture I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Society and Culture All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Society and Culture "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Society and Culture
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