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Worcestershire County Council - A-Z of Council services, information about the Council itself, facts and figures, and job vacancies.

Wychavon District Council - A-Z of services, benefits and tax information, councillors and committees, economic development, planning applications, press releases, public notices, recruitment, and tourism.

Bromsgrove District Council - Information about committees, services, parish councils, trade, tourism, maps, and council news.

Michael Foster, MP - includes biography, political activities, press releases, and information on issues.

Oultwood: Worcestershire - Directory of local government council web site links using clickable maps and lists.

Malvern Hills District Council - Information for residents, visitors and businesses.

Wyre Forest District Council - Site provides detailed information on the area, history, and the services provided to the local community.

Redditch Borough Council - Information about the council and its work, an A-Z of council services, press releases, with general information about the borough, including history, business, sports, arts and leisure.

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Government "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Government Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu 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 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Government If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Government Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Government "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Government Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Government Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Government "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards Government "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "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, Alice in Wonderland Government I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Government Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Government A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Government Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Government There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Government Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Government A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Government Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Government The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton Government A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery "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) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Government Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Government The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Government
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