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	Fire Brigades Union Scotland Region 1 - The Fire Brigades Union Scotland represents over 6,000 uniformed members of the fire service and is a dedicated Trade Union. Region 1 is part of the National Union and is governed by Annual Conference. The Fire Brigades Union is part of the working-class movement and, linking itself with the international trade union and labour movement, has as it's ultimate aim the bringing about of the Socialist system of society.
	Berkshire Fire Brigades Union - Local news and information with details of pay and conditions, campaigns and legal services.
	Fire Brigades Union - "The Fire Brigades Union is part of the working-class movement and, linking itself with the international trade union movement, has as its ultimate aim the bringing about of the Socialist system of society."
	30k Fire Pay - Official web site of the United Kingdom Fire Fighters Campaign for a pay increase. Information, features, news, contacts, forum, ideas, endorsements, competition for the best dressed fire station.
	Fire Brigades Union Region 7 - Covers West Midlands, Hereford & Worcester, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Fire Service College. Includes local news and updates plus contact details for local branches.
	FBU Wales - Region 8 - Regional news, campaign updates and information on pay and conditions for Fire Brigades Union in Wales.
	FBU Southern Region 13 - Regional news and information on pay and conditions, legal matters and union rule book.
	Fire Brigades Union Hampshire - Local news, campaigns, calendar and contact details.

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Fire Brigades Union "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Fire Brigades Union Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Fire Brigades Union A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Fire Brigades Union "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson 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. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Fire Brigades Union These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Fire Brigades Union It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Fire Brigades Union A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Fire Brigades Union Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Fire Brigades Union 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 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Fire Brigades Union Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fire Brigades Union Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Fire Brigades Union "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Fire Brigades Union If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Fire Brigades Union 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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Fire Brigades Union "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. 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