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Bristol Link - Bristol Link provides on-line community services for individuals, groups, and businesses.
alt.bristol FAQ - The official FAQ for the newsgroup alt.bristol.
Beehive Community Network - Part of the Bristol United Press web site offering free web space to local community groups and charities.
Bellevue Pleasure Gardens Association - Based in Cliftonwood and aiming to restore local communal gardens as an amenity for residents: news, history, contact details
Totterdown And Knowle LETS - Local Exchange Trading System: membership information and contact details.
South Bristol Advice Services - Independent charity helping local residents with information, benefits ad claims. Includes locations, services, contact details, links.
North Bristol Advice Centre - Counselling and information on a wide range of issues including welfare benefits, debt, housing and employment for people in North Bristol and South Gloucestershire: profile, funding, opening times, contact details, downloads.
Brislington & St Annes LETS - Local exchange trading scheme for South East area of the city: directory, membership information, archive, links and contact details.
Bristol Web Community - Community site offering a variety of noticeboards, forums and community participation. Feature articles, spotlights on organisations and people, anecdotes and stories of Bristol.
Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau - Opening hours, contact information, volunteering opportunities from local independent organisation providing free confidential and impartial advice on any subject.
CLEO Project - Gives offenders and ex-offenders from the postcode areas of BS4 and BS13 the opportunity to contribute to the community in a positive way: aims, background information, client diary, local prisons and contact details.
Swap It - Free adverts for swapping unwanted items locally, sponsored by the Recycling Consortium.
Bristol Old Farts - Ex Bristol Council employees getting together to eat, drink and be merry on a two monthly basis. Photographs of members and venues.
Bristolian Friendly - An interactive Bristol community with chat room and message boards. Photographs.
Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Society and Culture If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Society and Culture Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Society and Culture My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Society and Culture 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 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Society and Culture In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Society and Culture I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Society and Culture Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa 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 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 Society and Culture "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Society and Culture "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Society and Culture Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Society and Culture He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
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