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Antibiotics: Don't wear me out - An information leaflet from the UK Department of Health on the effectiveness and correct use of antibiotics.
Food Forum - Comprehensive site about food education, produced by a former specialist food teacher. Aimed at parents and teachers.
Mind, Body and Soul: Homepage - Website providing health information based on the National Curriculum for Key Stage 4 pupils - 14 -16 year olds. Links to a variety of clear, relevant websites.
Think About Drink - Information site by the Health Education Council aimed at young people. Count your units, read tales from the dark side and try the quiz.
Smoking: Don't give up giving up - Official site produced by the NHS Health Education Authority. Useful advice on how to give up and you can ask for regular supportive e-mails.
Community Hygiene Concern - A registered UK charity providing information on diseases caused by parasites or by poor hygiene, affecting people and pets. Good information about head lice and how to get rid of them.
Foodlink - Provides food safety tips and advice, aimed at children.
No Smoking Day - Held on the second Wednesday of March every year. This is the official Web site to support people who want to stop smoking on this day.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Patient Education In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Patient Education "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner "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 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 Patient Education Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Patient Education Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Patient Education The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Patient Education Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Patient Education If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Patient Education When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Patient Education Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Patient Education Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Patient Education The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Patient Education Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein Patient Education There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Patient Education Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Patient Education There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity 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 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Patient Education If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Patient Education Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Patient Education "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Patient Education Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Patient Education If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Patient Education Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Patient Education
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