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Children's Hope - Leeds-based charity working with disadvantaged chidren in Ukraine. History, news, pictures, and links.
The Sirian Cultural Society - Information about coming meetings in Leeds, with details of the Gurjieff Society and extracts from the writings of Gurdjieff and others.
Leeds Junior Chamber of Commerce - A voluntary, community, activity and social club for 18 to 40 year olds. Powerpoint presentation of the club, and downloadable membership application
CAMRA - Leeds - Meetings, events and campaigns. From the Leeds branch of CAMpaign for Real Ale.
Leeds Civic Trust - Aims to encourage development and public amenities which take pride in the present and future heritage of Leeds. Useful reports and events listed.
The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society - Information about the history and current activities of this educational charity dedicated to advancing science, literature and the arts in Leeds. Events diary, membership and contact details.
Voluntary Action - Leeds - Database of links with voluntary and community groups in the Leeds Metropolitan area who are on-line.
22nd North Leeds (Hillel) Scouts - Information about a Jewish Scout Troop, based in N Leeds. Details of membership and activities.
Home-Start Leeds - Information about the charity, staff and the volunteers who offer support and practical help to families under stress.
Leeds Citizens Advice Bureau - Provides free advice, and guidance to members of the public on a wide variety of topics. Information about Leeds CAB, volunteer and job vacancies, news and contact details. Link to national On-line Advice Guide.
The Market Place - Offers support, information and counselling for young people aged 13-25 in Leeds. Contact details and information for young people on the services offered, for prospective volunteers. Also includes an accessible section designed to meet W3C standards for useability.
St Annes Drugs Project - Information about needle exchange programmes in Leeds, with contact details.
West Yorkshire Homeworking Unit - Information, advice and support for homeworkers or those wishing to work from home. Contact details. Part of Yorkshire and Humberside Low Pay Unit.
Leeds Student Community Action - Includes information about current projects and volunteering opportunities.
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Milne) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Organisations Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Organisations Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Organisations She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Organisations To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Organisations Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Organisations "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Organisations Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde "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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organisations Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Organisations Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Organisations I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Organisations Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Organisations America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Organisations Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer Organisations "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Organisations Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Organisations Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous "'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) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Organisations "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Organisations "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Organisations
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