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	Simon Jones Memorial Campaign - The campaign seeks justice for the family of Simon Jones who was killed whilst working as a casual labourer in a dock. We have recently won a landmark Judicial Review challenging the crown prosecution services decision not to prosecute his employers for corporate manslaughter.
	Unemployed Action Group - Takes a look at some of the main news stories from a different perspective, how they affect the socially excluded.
	Living Wage Campaign - Alliance of faith groups, unions, schools and community groups advocating a living wage.
	The UK National Work-Stress Network - An organisation that aims to educate and raise awareness of work-stress and to improve legislation on health, safety and employment rights in the UK and Europe.
	Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment (CAADE) - Formed by Philip and Bernice Walker in 1988 to fight for the rights of older workers. Includes statistics, legislative information and other resources.
	LabourStart UK - News for workers culled from the newswires. Includes online discussion forums and other resources.
	workSMART - On-line directory of rights at work, and where to find help with work-related problems.

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"Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Work I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Work "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Work I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Work The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Work The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Work It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Work "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Work If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Work What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Work The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Work "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Work A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Work I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Work Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic Work Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Work "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "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) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Work During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Work He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Work "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Work Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |