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BFBS Radio & Television - The official website of the British Forces Broadcasting Service, Radio & Television.
The Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) - The official website provides education, information and entertainment to Her Majesty's Armed Forces, through the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS Radio and Television), Combined Services Entertainment (formerly ENSA), British Defence Film Library, SSVC Forces Cinemas and SSVC Retail.
Navy, Army and Airforce Institutes (NAAFI) - Since its establishment in 1921 the NAAFI has been the official trading organisation of HM Forces, and has provided retail and leisure services to the Services at home, abroad and at sea during war and in peacetime.
Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom - Exists to further knowledge and interest in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Provides details of services, membership and contact information.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Responsible for marking and maintaining the graves of those members of the Commonwealth forces killed in the two World Wars, building memorials to those who have no known grave and keeping records of Civilian War Dead.
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Defence "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Defence If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Defence Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Defence "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "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 Defence We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Defence "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Defence Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Defence The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Defence "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Defence All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Defence "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Defence The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Defence Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Defence You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Defence "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) 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 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Defence Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Defence Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Defence blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Defence Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Defence Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Defence A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Defence
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