British Lyme Disease Foundation - Mark Greenfield is a sufferer of Lyme disease and has a useful single page site with information and links.
Group B Strep Support - Charity set up to help families whose babies have been affected and to raise awareness of the problem. Brief, clear information is provided.
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Infectious Diseases "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
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-- Russell Baker Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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-- J. Heller "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Infectious Diseases
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "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 Infectious Diseases Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Infectious Diseases
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Infectious Diseases Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Infectious Diseases
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
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-- Harold Loukes I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Infectious Diseases To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Infectious Diseases
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
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-- Maya Angelou Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- 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 Infectious Diseases
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward How could they tell?
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-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Infectious Diseases
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Infectious Diseases The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Infectious Diseases
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Infectious Diseases "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Infectious Diseases
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous 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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Infectious Diseases Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Infectious Diseases
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Infectious Diseases The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Infectious Diseases