Royal Society Inquiry into Infectious Diseases in Livestock - Announced 9 August 2001 as one of the three FMD Inquiries. Chaired by Sir Brian Follett FRS. Summary Report released July 2002. Includes progress reports, commissioned papers and evidence.
Devon Foot and Mouth Disease Inquiry - One of the three County Council FMD Inquiries, chaired by Professor Ian Mercer CBE. Report released January 2002. Site contains the full 100 page report, including the recommendations.
Northumberland Foot and Mouth Disease Inquiry - One of the three County Council FMD Inquiries, chaired by Professor Michael Dower. Report released February 2002. Site contains the full report, including the recommendations.
Cumbria Foot and Mouth Disease Inquiry - One of the three County Council FMD Inquiries, chaired by Professor Phil Thomas. Report released September 2002. Site contains the full 120 page report, including the recommendations.
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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-- Oscar Wilde When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Foot and Mouth Disease - FMD
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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-- Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
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-- Rainer Maria Ril Foot and Mouth Disease - FMD We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
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-- Holbrook Jackson Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
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-- George Bernard Shaw Foot and Mouth Disease - FMD
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Foot and Mouth Disease - FMD "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
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-- Charlotte Whitton When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
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-- Fred Astaire Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
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-- Jeff Raskin Foot and Mouth Disease - FMD
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
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-- August Strindberg I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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-- Chinese saying Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Foot and Mouth Disease - FMD Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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-- Samuel Butler Foot and Mouth Disease - FMD Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
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-- Buck Henry Foot and Mouth Disease - FMD
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
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