Intelligence and Security Committee - Interim Report - 2000-01 interim report presented to parliament on the expenditure, administration and policy of the United Kingdom's three Intelligence and Security Agencies: SIS, GCHQ and the Security Service. Requires Acrobat Reader.
Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report - 1999-2000 annual report presented to parliament on the expenditure, administration and policy of the United Kingdom's three Intelligence and Security Agencies: SIS, GCHQ and the Security Service
Intelligence and Security Committee - 1998-99 annual report presented to parliament on the expenditure, administration and policy of the United Kingdom's three Intelligence and Security Agencies: SIS, GCHQ and the Security Service.
NAO - Thames House and Vauxhall Cross - National Audit Office report on the purchase, refurbishment and fitting out of buildings for the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. Requires Acrobat Reader.
Intelligence and Security Committee - 1997-98 annual report presented to parliament on the expenditure, administration and policy of the United Kingdom's three Intelligence and Security Agencies: SIS, GCHQ and the Security Service.
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-- G. K. Chesterton He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Countess of Blessington If you are going through hell, keep going.
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-- ee cummings If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Official Reports
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-- Groucho Marx My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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- Albert Einstein Official Reports
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-- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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--Anon. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- General Omar Bradley Official Reports
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-- Aldous Huxley Official Reports The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
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-- Jeanne Moreau Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
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-- Sidney Goff "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Official Reports The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
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-- Ralph Mars Official Reports
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-- Euripides Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
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-- Gerald Holton Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Official Reports
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
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-- Will Rogers The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Official Reports
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-- Navaho saying Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
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-- Sigmund Freud An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
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-- Joan Crawford Official Reports
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
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and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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- Plato Official Reports Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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