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Department for International Development - The DFID site explains this UK department's role in promoting development and the reduction of poverty and include policy papers and British aid statistics.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Includes information for UK citizens travelling abroad and a regularly updated archive of speeches, press releases and background papers on various aspects of British foreign policy.
The International Development Magazine - Magazine produced by the UK's Department for International Development. The site features articles from the magazine and an online ordering system.
United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations - The United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in New York City covers a wide range of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's objectives - from the peaceful settlement of disputes to protecting the environment, from respect for human rights to promoting sustainable development.
Enemy Property: The British Government Claims Scheme - Site contains details of the claims scheme and how to apply. It also has summary details of records held at the Public Record Office relating to UK property seized during WWII from organisations and individuals resident in countries with which the UK was at war.
British Association for Central and Eastern Europe - Government-sponsored body which aims to promote a closer understanding between the British people and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and to support the institutions of a civil society.
UK Visas - Provides advice and assistance on applying for a UK visa.
Trade Partners UK - Official Web site of the British government organisation promoting international trade. Jointly operated by the Foreign Office and the Dept of Trade and Industry
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. International Affairs The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 International Affairs "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel International Affairs To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West International Affairs I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) International Affairs I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia International Affairs Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr International Affairs Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg International Affairs No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) International Affairs Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 International Affairs Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward International Affairs The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. International Affairs When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) International Affairs All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele International Affairs Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting "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 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence International Affairs People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) International Affairs There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner International Affairs "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce International Affairs A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary International Affairs "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde International Affairs The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke International Affairs In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous International Affairs
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