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Bracknell Forest Library - Includes information, opening times and contact details.
Bracknell Camera Club - Newsletter, programme of meetings and gallery of pictures.
South Hill Park Arts Centre - Offers a year round programme of theatre, music, dance, film, exhibitions, workshops and courses, in its magnificent 18th Century mansion and modern Theatre.
Out There Festival - Multi-genre music festival featuring internationally known musicians, workshops, visual arts, and performance art. Site includes a daily schedule, ticket information, directions, and travel information.
Forest Jubilee Theatre - A collaboration of the six amateur theatrical societies in the Bracknell Forest Area presenting Alan Ayckbourne's "Comic Potential" for the Jubilee at South Hill Park
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We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Arts and Entertainment Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Arts and Entertainment Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Arts and Entertainment 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, "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Arts and Entertainment Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis "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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Arts and Entertainment Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Arts and Entertainment "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Arts and Entertainment It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Arts and Entertainment "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Arts and Entertainment "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Arts and Entertainment No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Arts and Entertainment "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Arts and Entertainment A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Arts and Entertainment I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Arts and Entertainment
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