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Stevington Historical Trust - Describes the village and its history, the activities of the Trust, and a forthcoming book.
Bedford Lions Club - Fundraising organisation for disadvantaged individuals and charitable groups.
Soroptimist International - Organisation for women. Offers club meetings, project information and answers frequently asked questions.
Albion Archaeology - An archaeological company, formerly Bedfordshire County Archaeology Service. Company profile, services, recent work.
Bedford Race Equality Council - Local body campaigning to end racial discrimination and promote equality of opportunity.
The Bedford Charity - Involved in and funding the promotion of education, the relief of hardship and the provision of recreation within the Borough of Bedford. Also known as the Harpur Trust.
Borneo Linnells - Charities - Directory of charities either based in the Bedford area or offering services to the town and surrounding villages.
"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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Society and Culture Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Society and Culture Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "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 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung 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 Society and Culture Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture "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) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Society and Culture Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Society and Culture Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst 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 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Society and Culture "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Society and Culture Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Society and Culture 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, Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Society and Culture I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Society and Culture We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Society and Culture "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Society and Culture The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Society and Culture "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
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