Freedom & Justice for Samar and Jawad - A campaign to secure freedom for two people in prison for offences, it is claimed, they did not commit. Update on the case, newsletter, biographies, background information, and an invitation to support activities to prevent a miscarriage of justice.
British Australian Pensioner Association - An Alliance of British expatriates seeking to overturn the British Government policy of non indexation of pensions paid to elderly emigrants in Commonwealth countries. Allege contravention of the Human Rights Act.
Cambridgeshire Against Refugee Detention - Campaigns against the British government's policy of imprisoning asylum-seekers without trial while their claims are processed, and against the detention centre at Oakington near Cambridge.
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something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "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) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Advocacy Groups Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not remember days; we remember moments.
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-- Anon Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
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-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
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age.
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Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Advocacy Groups "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) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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.
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together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Advocacy Groups
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
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We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Only the little people pay taxes.
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cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Advocacy Groups He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
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