Julia Polak Research Trust - Work of trust was set up to support medical research into ways of repairing or replacing damaged or diseased human organs and tissues.
United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority - Supports transplant units throughout the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Includes information about transplants, donor cards and the NHS organ donor register.
British Association for Tissue Banking - Includes a section of information on the organisation, membership, code of practice, and special interest groups; and a section for people with a general interest in tissue donation.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Transplant "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Transplant
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transplant When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transplant
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Transplant A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Transplant
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "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 thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Transplant A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Transplant
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Transplant If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Transplant
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Transplant Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Transplant
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Transplant "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Transplant
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transplant Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Transplant
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Transplant Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Transplant
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller 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 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Transplant If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Transplant
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. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transplant A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Transplant
