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KableNET - News about e-government and information age public services from Kable, the publisher of Government Computing.
Local Government Chronicle Online - Local government news reported by a news team throughout the day. Provides a news archive from 1993 and resources for managers in local authorities.
Local Government News - Now the biggest independent local government magazine, LGN provides news and reportage on local government activities across the UK. The LGNnetuk section also provides local government officers with all the latest product news.
Local Government Studies - Journal for the study of the politics, administration and management of local affairs.
e-government bulletin - Free monthly e-mail newsletter covering electronic public services, 'teledemocracy' and the information society in the UK and worldwide, aimed at everyone in government, local government, the social sector and their private sector partners.
UKonline.gov.uk : Latest news from the UK Government - Online news, information, public advice and policy from the UK Government portal.
GNN Government News Network - Regional arm of GICS supplies official national and regional press releases with full search facility. Also monitors the media.
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius News and Media I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) News and Media Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins News and Media Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin News and Media A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield News and Media The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor News and Media Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger News and Media Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k News and Media Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset News and Media I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli News and Media There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth News and Media Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert News and Media "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy News and Media You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana News and Media "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle News and Media "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. News and Media A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell News and Media I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln News and Media I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life 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 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford News and Media Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous News and Media
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