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Human Fertilization and Embryology Commission - HFEC. Licences and regulates fertility treatment and research.
Health and Safety Executive - HSE. Regulates the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
The Housing Corporation - The government agency who fund and regulate Registered Social Landlords (including housing associations) in England.
General Medical Council - Regulates the activities of practising medical doctors in the UK, all of whom must be registered with the GMC. Site describes the functions of the Council and provides guidance for doctors and the public.
Housing and Housing Policy - Information from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister concerning Government policy on housing issues.
Community Training and Enabling - CTE grants support housing association residents in England to develop new training and community development projects. News, projects and how to apply for a grant.
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(Edger Allen Poe) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Health and Housing He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Health and Housing Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Health and Housing Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Health and Housing blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Health and Housing To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Health and Housing "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Health and Housing Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Health and Housing Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Health and Housing Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Health and Housing "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Health and Housing "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Health and Housing Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Health and Housing Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Health and Housing A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Health and Housing Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Health and Housing
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