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GENUKI: West Riding of Yorkshire Index - Brief histories of the many parishes and towns. From Genealogy for UK and Ireland.
West Yorkshire Trading Standards - Information on services provided for the consumers and businesses of West Yorkshire, their education programme. Register a complaint on-line.
West Yorkshire Archaeology Service - Information on services offered by the organisation. Contact details for the service and for local history groups. Online resource for teachers about the Romans in W Yorkshire.
Friends of the Earth groups in Yorkshire - Brief details of three FoE local groups in Yorkshire. Search facility for contact details, and local group web-sites.
British Computer Society, West Yorkshire Branch - Details of events programme, and downloadable newsletter.
BTCV in West Yorkshire - Information on the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers covers volunteering and supporting their projects and links to their partners.
West Yorkshire Organic Group - A group promoting organic growing, farming, and use of organic food in West Yorkshire (local group of the Soil Association and HDRA). Information on events, and activities, with contact details and links.
Yorkshire and Humberside Books - Ordering information for books by local historian, Bob Preedy. Includes information about his programmes on local radio, and Wetherby Cinema.
DJ's CQB - Information gathering related to possible Airsoft site in West Yorkshire (using low-powered air-guns to simulate Close Quarters Battle).
The Star Project - A free support service for victims of rape throughout West Yorkshire. Includes the background to the project and details of services.
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Society and Culture "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Society and Culture Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Society and Culture Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Society and Culture "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Society and Culture "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Society and Culture Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Society and Culture Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Society and Culture ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Society and Culture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Society and Culture NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Society and Culture Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture
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