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North Wales Police - A comprehensive view of North Wales Police from statistics reports and crime prevention information to recruitment and community safety, in Welsh and English.
Chwarae Teg - Independent organisation which promotes and develops the role of women in the workforce in Wales. Includes information on programmes, events and childcare advice.
Dyfed Powys Police - Provides information on the force including recruitment, the policing plan and drugs information.
South Wales Police - News, crimestoppers and events as well as some background information on the force.
How to find AA in Wales - Searchable list of meeting in Wales, updated every month.
St John Ambulance in Wales - Voluntary organisation providing first aid coverage and training to the general public. Members of the organisation range from ages 6 to 70 and all are welcome.
Welsh Women's Press - Details of current events and projects, calls for submissions and history of the Press.
Rampart Archaeology - Articles and information about archaeologicla discoveries in West Wales, shipwrecks in Carmarthen Bay, and a Carmarthenshire place-name survey.
Welsh Scout Council - Includes news, publications, merchandise.
Welsh Federation of Housing Associations - Independent body that is the voice of independent social landlords in Wales. Includes the aims and goals of the organisation, a directory of members, policy and information, commercial opportunities, training information, and publications.
Welsh Culture - Discover Wales - everything from arts and crafts to language and literature, history and mythology to sports and politics.
Guild of Glyndwr - Campaigns against anti-Welsh bias, particularly in the media. Include a list of famous Welsh people.
soc.culture.welsh Homepage - Links to the newsgroups' charter, history and FAQ.
Wales Goodwill - Information related to the teachings of Alice Bailey.
The Wolf Man Knew My Father - A guide to Welsh popular culture with an emphasis on the alternative.
Appetite for Wales Competition - Competition to devise a dish flavours of cookery and produce in Wales. Includes aims, rules, prizes, and recipes of the winners.
Llwybro Routes - Community and economic development initiative set up to investigate the movement trends and keep in touch with people educated in Mid Wales during the past 30 years. Contains news, registration details, and contact information.
BBC TalkWales - Message board for Welsh issues, including news, sport, and the community.
Facts About Wales - A variety of facts and legends associated with the Principality.
Virtual Wales - History of some towns and cities, the lyrics of the national anthem in English and Welsh, and a recipe for Welsh cakes.
Friends of Gwrych Castle, Abergele, United Kingdom - Campaign to save a historic Welsh castle. Includes history, news, and facts.
Eye On Wales - Series of commentaries about travel, business and politics, written from an American perspective by Catherine Frumerman.
Christians Against Torture - A voluntary human-rights organisation that campaigns on behalf of political prisoners. Policies, news and contact information.
Presteigne YFC - Information about our club members and activities.
Mysteries of Wales - A journey through Welsh history, legend and myth. Includes information on holy sites, castles, Princes, folklore, courts, battles and hauntings.
Conwy and District Branch of the British Epilepsy Association - Supports people with epilepsy, their families and carers in North Wales. Information about their activities, their Welsh language helpline, news, and contact details.
Cambria - A local magazine for people interested in lifestyle, politics, society and opinion.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Society and Culture I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Society and Culture He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Society and Culture The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Society and Culture Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Society and Culture A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "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 Society and Culture Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Society and Culture "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Society and Culture The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Society and Culture blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "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) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Society and Culture Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Society and Culture Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Society and Culture
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