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Labour Party - Britain's "democratic socialist party". Currently led by centrist Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is the chief advocate of the "Third Way" philosophy. Includes policies, announcements and membership information.
New Mutualism - Magazine promoting the ideas of the Co-operative Party which is an affiliate of the Labour Party. The party promotes the idea of "New Mutualism" which "seeks modern ways of expressing the fundamentals values of mutual and co-operative societies." Site contains downloadable pamphlets.
labour-party.org.uk - Unofficial site with text of Labour manifestoes from 1945 onwards and a directory of Labour Party links.
The Co-operative Party - The political arm of the British Co-operative Movement, affiliated with and runs candidates jointly with Labour. Policies, publications and details of its role in the Commons and Lords.
The Virtual & Global Social Democratic Party (VirGlob-SP) - The first worldwide political education project to communicate only online. It aims to promote the direct political exchange between the social and democratic grass-roots activists throughout the world.
Guardian Politics Special Reports: Labour Party - Full coverage includes news, comment and analysis about party issues, MPs and ministers plus web resources including conference coverage. Talk board.
Labour Women's Network - Encouraging women to come forward as UK parliamentary candidates.
The Big Conversation - National consultation. Opportunity to contribute to policy discussion.
Compass - A new membership-based organisation for people on the democratic left. Our goal is to debate, discuss and develop the ideas, vision and action needed to develop a more coherent and radical programme for a centre-left government.
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Labour "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Labour
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau 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.
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-- George S. Patton, Jr. Labour Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Labour
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Labour Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Labour
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Labour Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Labour
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Labour Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Labour
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) 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.
-- Mortimer J. Adler This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Labour Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Labour
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Labour ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Labour
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 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Labour "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Labour
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA 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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Labour Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Labour Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Labour
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 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 Labour The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Labour
