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Bletchley Park - The official web site of The Bletchley Park Trust.
People Against Landfill Sites - Action group opposed to landfill site in Bletchley, with reports and related links, with contacts.
Bletchley, Pioneers, Planning & Progress - Between the years of 1950 and 1974, Bletchley underwent expansion at an unprecedented rate, the history. Its effects on education, community spirit, local services, leisure, industry and housing.
Impressions of Fenny Stratford - Providing two contrasting impressions of community life in and around Fenny Stratford. Each of the two strands tells its own story: that of the area's history, and also of the growing Sikh community.
Wellsmead First School - History of the school from its 1971. Newspaper articles and interesting stories, a virtual tour, picture gallery and an article on their famous pupil Olympic athlete Derek Redmond.
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Society and Culture Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Society and Culture What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Society and Culture You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Society and Culture Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Society and Culture Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Society and Culture A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland 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 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Society and Culture Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland 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 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Society and Culture Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce 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 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) 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 can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage 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 Society and Culture
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