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Wiltshire Constabulary - Promoting the policy of "Keeping Wiltshire Safe", includes news and feedback sections.

West Wiltshire District Council - All about West Wiltshire for business, residents and tourists.

Wiltshire Fire Brigade - Provides details of the brigade structure, responsibilities and fire safety plans. Includes jobs, training, local stations, community advice, and a children's section.

Kennet District Council - News and information from local council including status of planning permission applications.

Wiltshire County Council - Information from each of the key departments of the County Council (Education, Environment, Libraries, Transport and so on).

Wiltshire (Special) Constabulary - Unofficial resource for all serving Police Officers and Special Constables.

North Wiltshire District Council - Various online services from local council including payment of council tax and job applications. Other information includes planned road works.

Wiltshire Police Authority - Provides members of the public with access to police personnel, and consults on policing strategy and finances at regular public meetings. Includes news, member details and various publications.

Wiltshire Pathways - Information on the organisation, including services provided, contact details and a newsletter.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "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 Government "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 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Government Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Government If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Government The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Government 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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Government We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Government "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Government The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Government "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead Government "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Government The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Government Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson "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) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Government The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Government I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Government "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Government "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) 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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Government Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Government It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Government My other wife is beautiful. Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Government
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