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National Trust Thames and Chilterns Region - Maintains places of historic interest and natural beauty in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and parts of London. Properties, events, news, visitor information.
DancingOctopus.com - Lists the programmes for entertainment venues in the northern Midlands. Also has links to travel sites.
Branching Out - Public libraries outreach project. Includes project aims and background, regional contacts and news.
The Comedy Club - Offers entertainment at venues in Buckinghamshire, Essex and Suffolk. Profile, events, comedians, membership and tickets with a selection of jokes.
Wilts and Berks Canal Trust - A registered charity committed to the restoration of the Wilts and Berks Canal, the central section of the Wessex Waterways Network. Includes news, history, and images.
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Arts and Entertainment Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 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 Arts and Entertainment The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol "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) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni Arts and Entertainment A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover Arts and Entertainment We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian Arts and Entertainment No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Arts and Entertainment "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Arts and Entertainment "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "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 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Arts and Entertainment The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Arts and Entertainment "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Arts and Entertainment Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Arts and Entertainment "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Arts and Entertainment Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Arts and Entertainment Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves "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) Arts and Entertainment The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Arts and Entertainment
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