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Conservative Countryside Forum - Aims to promote debate over all issues relating to the Countryside, Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Site has several in-depth articles about the problems affecting UK farmers.
Conservative National Education Society - For party members directly involved or interested in Education. The group provide support and advice to the parliamentary team responsible for formulating Conservative education policy.
Conservatives at Work - For members of the party interested in industrial and workplace matters. All Conservative Party members in employment are eligible to join.
Conservative Medical Society - Aims to promote debate within the Conservative Party on health care.
Conservative Disability Group - Aims to promote an understanding of disability issues among voters and policy-makers, and to lobby for disabled people to be allowed to make their own decisions.
Renewing One Nation - Aims to identify policies to build character, invest in families and to strengthen communities.
Conservatives Abroad - Aims to identify, register and recruit Conservative voters living outside the UK. Their site provides news from branches around the world and global contact details.
Conservative Christian Fellowship - To sustain and encourage Christian contributions to life and thinking of the UK Conservative Party.
Conservative Animal Welfare Group - Aims to raise the awareness of animal welfare issues within the Conservative Party, to develop related policies, and to lobby policy-makers. Their site provides policy papers, press releases and details of their organisation.
Gay Conservatives - News articles and information about their campaigns. Separate member areas require registration.
Society of Conservative Lawyers - Aims to aid the Conservative Party's understanding of Legal issues. Their site lists their aims, events and related speeches.
Conservatives at Work - For members of the party interested in industrial and workplace matters. All Conservative Party members in employment are eligible to join.
Conservative Disability Group - Aims to promote an understanding of disability issues among voters and policy-makers, and to lobby for disabled people to be allowed to make their own decisions.
The Enterprise Forum - Aims to facilitate dialog between the Business community and Conservative Party by arranging events at which the two groups meet.
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) May you never leave your marriage alive. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Special Interest Groups There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Special Interest Groups Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Special Interest Groups "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Special Interest Groups I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Special Interest Groups My other wife is beautiful. "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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Special Interest Groups Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Special Interest Groups He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Special Interest Groups The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Special Interest Groups Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Special Interest Groups "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Special Interest Groups "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) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Special Interest Groups "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Special Interest Groups The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Special Interest Groups "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Special Interest Groups "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Special Interest Groups blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Special Interest Groups Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Special Interest Groups "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Special Interest Groups I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Special Interest Groups I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Special Interest Groups "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Special Interest Groups
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