Shropshire Health Authority - Contains information about health care in Shropshire, includes HiMP and other documents available for download, and links to local service providers and Primary Care Groups.
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"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz Local Health Authorities There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
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-- Neils Bohr then the world 's mine oyster
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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-- Dave Barry I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Local Health Authorities
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- George Santayana It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
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people.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Local Health Authorities I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Local Health Authorities Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Local Health Authorities
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Local Health Authorities There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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life If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Local Health Authorities
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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soiled or torn? Local Health Authorities Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Local Health Authorities
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I think, therefore I'm single.
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-- Paul Ehrlich Local Health Authorities
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Local Health Authorities "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Local Health Authorities
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Local Health Authorities "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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