West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service - News, information and contact details. Includes details of their private ambulance service, and corporate training services offered.
The Alexander Technique in West Yorkshire - A guide to individual and group lessons in the Alexander Technique in Leeds and Hebden Bridge given by Grant Ragsdale MSTAT.
West Yorkshire Fire Service - Metropolitan brigade controlling fifty stations. Information includes services and contacts, community safety, incident command system, and best value plan. Provides a children's page and related links.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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-- Plutarch The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
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-- Oscar Wilde In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Health
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Facts are the enemy of truth.
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
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-- Henry Ford Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Health
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
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-- Fred Allen Health The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Health
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
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- Emile Zola Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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-- Sioux Indian Prayer Health
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
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-- Jean Cocteau Health I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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 Health
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-- Mae West Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Health Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Health
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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mean his maker, but himself.
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-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Health
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
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-- Robert Graves Health What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
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-- Voltaire "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Health People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
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-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Health
