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ValidateUK - Proof of age scheme for young people.
Youth Issues, Projects and Information - A resource for young people and youth workers, features a directory of groups in North East England, a forum to discuss relevant issues and a news page.
Jiggy - Student news and reviews, including creative articles and film reviews.
Connected: Survey of how young people use the media - Answers the questions: How do young people use the media? How do they communicate? Where do they get ideas?
TheSite.org - Teen and youth oriented information and advice resource, run by UK charity YouthNet. Honest, factual information about drugs, sex, careers, relationships, student life, and health matters.
TOPS Mentoring - A scheme which aims to raise the self-esteem, aspirations and achievements of young people and prepare them for adult life and the world of work. Information about mentoring and details of how to get involved.
The W4 Massive - A site for teenagers living in W4, West London. Contains local listings, information and reviews.
The Lord's Taverners Cricket Club and Charity - A charity cricket club founded in 1950 to give children a sporting chance.
Harehills-i - Young people from Harehills in Leeds express their views in a series of video projects. Includes a forum.
VOIS (Voicing Our Issues and Struggles) - A series of projects designed to assist young people to think, write and speak about social issues, issues that matter to them and affect them.
Connexions Direct - Offers advice on education, careers, housing, money, health and relationships. Includes web chat, telephone and call-back services.
Student Zone - Student portal designed around a specific range of resources dedicated to helping students through university.
"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) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Teen and Youth If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Teen and Youth Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Teen and Youth "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Teen and Youth Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Teen and Youth "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Teen and Youth By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Teen and Youth Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Teen and Youth In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Teen and Youth I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Teen and Youth "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin 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 Teen and Youth Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Teen and Youth Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Teen and Youth Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Teen and Youth "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern Teen and Youth The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Teen and Youth The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Teen and Youth Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Teen and Youth The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Teen and Youth With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Teen and Youth A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Teen and Youth It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Teen and Youth
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