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	The Home Office - Site for the UK government department dealing with law, public order, public safety, immigration, fire, passports, prisons and the police among others. Includes detailed information on a number of issues including the Crime and Disorder Act.
	Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner - Responsible for ensuring that persons seeking immigration advice and immigration services are treated fairly, honestly and receive competent fit advice.
	UK Passport Agency - The executive agency of the Home Office which is chiefly concerned with issuing and servicing UK passports to British nationals who are resident in the UK.
	Immigration and Nationality Directorate - Immigration rules and information for asylum seekers. The site also has the IND's (disclosable) instructions to staff.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Home Office In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Home Office What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Home Office Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Home Office In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Home Office Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Home Office Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Home Office The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Home Office "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Home Office "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Home Office "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Home Office "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Home Office Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca 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 Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Home Office Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Home Office "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Home Office Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Home Office While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Home Office The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton Home Office You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Home Office "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 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Home Office There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Home Office "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." 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