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	Department for Culture, Media and Sport - Established in July 1997. Responsible for arts, broadcasting, the press, museums and galleries, libraries, sport and recreation, historic buildings and ancient monuments, tourism the music industry, and the National Lottery.
	The British Tourist Authority - Official site of the Authority and its local Tourist Boards.
	The British Council - Set up in 1934 to promote British culture abroad.
	The Design Council - Sponsors contributions to design practice that add value to the effectiveness of quality design.
	Historical Manuscripts Commission - Promotes the UK's archival collections.
	Culture Online - Government body which aims to use digital technologies to widen access to the resources of the arts and cultural sector, for the purposes of learning and enjoyment both at school and throughout life.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Culture, Media and Sport In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Culture, Media and Sport All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" 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 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Culture, Media and Sport Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Culture, Media and Sport Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken "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) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Culture, Media and Sport There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Man and wife make one fool. Culture, Media and Sport There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Culture, Media and Sport His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Culture, Media and Sport "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Culture, Media and Sport A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Culture, Media and Sport One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Culture, Media and Sport A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Culture, Media and Sport Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Culture, Media and Sport "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Culture, Media and Sport "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Culture, Media and Sport "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Culture, Media and Sport In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Culture, Media and Sport "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi 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 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Culture, Media and Sport Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Culture, Media and Sport "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Culture, Media and Sport "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Culture, Media and Sport I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." 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