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A Picture of Bradford - Young people at Shipley college took 1500 photographs of Bradford to create this image gallery.
Bradford Council - Adoption and Fostering - Comprehensive information for people thinking about adopting or fostering a child in the Bradford area.
Bradford Community Statistics Project - Access to Bradford statistics for voluntary, community and campaigning groups.
Bradford Council for Voluntary Service - Information on membership, and the development and support services for voluntary and community groups in Bradford.
Bradford West Labour Party - Information about the local and national party, policies, and elected representatives.
Bradford 2008 - Information about the city's bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008.
Bolton Woods Community Centre - Information about the community centre, the history and wild life of the Bolton Woods area, their football team, and IT training activities. Contact details and noticeboard.
My diary of exile, Mon journal d'exil - The diary of a poor French student lost in this ever-raining country.
Visions of Bradford - Images and thoughts about the city.
Bradford Resource Centre - Details of computer, printing, training and library facilities to support community and campaigning groups.
Bradford Community and Voluntary Service - Aims to support community and voluntary work in Bradford. Includes information on health, volunteering, specific projects and the newsletter, Briefing Bradford.
Bradford Cinderella Club - Established in 1889 to provide for underprivilaged children in the City of Bradford. Site contains memories from the last 114 years, as well as submission of online donations to the club.
The Mod Lang 75 Bradford reunion - A celebration of the reunion of Bradford University students of Modern Languages in 1975. If you know (or are!) someone who was there, do make contact.
Bradford & Shipley Conservatives - Information on past events, ward branches and local councillors, along with a mailing list.
Youth Fax - Information and advice for young people, on a variety of issures, including employment, education, rights, sport, leisure, travel, health, and money issues.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley 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 The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Society and Culture Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson My other wife is beautiful. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Society and Culture Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Society and Culture "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Society and Culture Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Society and Culture With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Society and Culture He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Society and Culture He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Society and Culture A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Society and Culture Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Society and Culture "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Society and Culture
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