Dame Alice Harpur School - Independent girls school. Describes the junior, lower and upper schools and the sixth form with information on admissions.
St Andrew's School - Independent school catering for pupils of all ages. Describes the four schools which make up the organisation and includes examples of their work.
Bedfordshire Schools - Complete list of all the county's LEA-funded schools, maintained by Bedfordshire County Council.
David Shoukry - Offers music teaching services and resources in the local area.
Bedford Modern School - Independent co-educational school, consisting of a junior and senior school and a sixth form. Site includes history of the school and admissions information.
Old Bedford Modernians' Club - Information, contact details, news and events for former pupils of Bedford Modern School.
Valerie Shoukry - Offers French and Spanish tuition in Bedford through a variety of traditional and software-oriented ways.
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-- Napoleon Bonaparte My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- 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 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
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th All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Education
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Education Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Education
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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-- Robert Graves Education Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
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-- Lenny Bruce Education
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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-- Henry Ford Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Education Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Education
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Education An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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upon the lev "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Education
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Education In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Education
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Education One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Education Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Education
