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Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Independent development and social research charity, supporting a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy.
Citizens Income - Gives on-line access to much of the material held at the Study Centre whilst, in addition, showcasing up-to-the-minute information on current findings, forthcoming events and reviews.
Institute for the Study of Civil Society - A British educational charity and publisher specializing in health, education, welfare, economics and the renewal of civil society.
Social Enterprise London - Exists to promote, establish and develop businesses that have social as well as economic aims. The site features current initiatives, downloadable policy papers and news about the Social Enterprise scene in London.
Policy Research Bureau - An independent social policy research centre specialising in families and young people.
Civitas: the Institute for the Study of Civil Society - A British educational charity and publisher specializing in health, education, welfare, economics and the renewal of civil society.
Age Concern London - Providing information about Age Concern London's work, including campaigns and publications, raising awareness of issues affecting older people in the capital.
Catalyst - A democratic socialist organisation set up in 1998 to promote new, practical policies directed to the redistribution of power, wealth and opportunity.
Centre for Policy Studies - An independent centre-right think tank which develops and publishes public policy proposals and arranges seminars and lectures on topical policy issues.
Fabian Society - A UK left of centre think tank which conducts research into political ideas and public policy reform. The site includes an on-line ordering service for various publications.
Demos - Independent think tank and research institute, believed to influence the policies of Tony Blair's government.
Institute for Fiscal Studies - Research institute which exists to provide economic analysis independent of government, political party or any other vested interest.
Nexus - A virtual Third Way think tank offering papers, discussion forum and mailing lists.
Job Ownership - Independent think tank based in London researching, advising and lobbying on employee ownership in the UK and around the world.
Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion - UK based, independent, non-profit organisation promoting social justice.
Labour Finance & Industry Group - Helps the Labour Party with policy-making in industrial and economic fields. Describes the organisation and its workings with news and member bulletins.
Adam Smith Institute - Developer of free-market policies on health, education, transport, welfare and taxation. Offers on-line publications, details of current initiatives, events diary, recommended reading, and information about Adam Smith.
Institute of Economic Affairs - The IEA's goal is to explain free-market ideas to the public, including politicians, students, journalists, businessmen, academics and anyone interested in public policy.
Guardian Unlimited Politics: Special Report: Thinktanks - Profiles Britain's leading thinktanks and explains what they are up to. Includes reviews of recent publications and links.
Social Issues Research Centre - An independent, non-profit organization founded to conduct research on social and lifestyle issues, trends, and human behavior. Campaigns against scares.
Policy Studies Institute - PSI undertakes and publishes research studies relevant to social, economic and industrial policy, employment and the environment.
Politeia - A forum for social and economic thinking encouraging reflection, discussion and debate about the place of the state in the people's daily lives, from employment and tax to education, health and pensions.
Global Research Business Institute - The GBRI is an educational body conducting outreach to business executives, journalists and civil servants, promoting a greater understanding of globalization and its consequences.
Reform Britain - A policy institute promoting new directions for public policy based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty.
New Politics Network - The New Politics Network is an independent political and campaigning think tank, concentrating on democratic renewal and popular participation in politics.
Centre for Reform - An independent public policy think tank.
Ekklesia - A web based think-tank promoting theological ideas in the public square.
Social Market Foundation - An independent think tank, exploring ideas that link the state and the market to create a more just, free and prosperous society. Focuses on health, education, welfare and pensions policy reform.
Institute for Public Policy Research - Research projects, publications and articles from the progressive think tank.
Social Policy Research Unit - Independent research unit at University of York concerned with the development of policies and the delivery of services to support people made vulnerable by poverty, ageing, disability or chronic illness.
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(John Cage) Policy Institutes "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Policy Institutes Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Policy Institutes If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Policy Institutes He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Policy Institutes In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Policy Institutes "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Policy Institutes Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Policy Institutes I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Policy Institutes "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Policy Institutes Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Policy Institutes Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Policy Institutes You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Policy Institutes Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm May you never leave your marriage alive. Policy Institutes There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Policy Institutes If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Policy Institutes Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Policy Institutes Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Policy Institutes Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Policy Institutes Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Policy Institutes Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr Policy Institutes
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