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Charity Commission for England and Wales - Regulates the administration and affairs of registered UK charities. Site gives detailed advice and policies on charitable activities, with a searchable database of UK charities.

The Cabinet Office - Comprised of several internal regulators for the Government and Civil Service.

Regulatory Impact Unit - Ensuring that regulation is clear, simple to understand and applied consistently.

Office of the Oversight Commissioner - Responsible for overseeing the implementation of the changes recommended by the Report of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland (the Patten Report).

Information Commissioner - Responsible for regulating the use and storage of personal information, and for overseeing the implementation of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. Site provides a searchable online version of the Data Protection Register.

The National Care Standards Commission - Independent public body set up under the Care Standards Act 2000 to regulate social care and private and voluntary health care services throughout England.

Local Democracy Standards Board - United Kingdom government agency which monitors ethical standards of local authorities and adjudicates in disputes.

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(Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Regulatory Bodies The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Regulatory Bodies "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Regulatory Bodies Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Regulatory Bodies I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Regulatory Bodies "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Regulatory Bodies Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun "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) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Regulatory Bodies Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Regulatory Bodies Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Regulatory Bodies "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Regulatory Bodies Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Regulatory Bodies It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Regulatory Bodies The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller Regulatory Bodies Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Regulatory Bodies If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Regulatory Bodies The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Regulatory Bodies The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Regulatory Bodies "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i "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 Regulatory Bodies The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Regulatory Bodies In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Regulatory Bodies
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