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New Life Church - A lively, charismatic and evangelical church which tries to cater for all ages.
Milton Keynes Heritage Association - The gateway site for heritage and local history in the Milton Keynes area, virtual tours, fascinating stories, historic photos and illustrations, on-line resources.
Netherfield Chapel - The home of an independent evangelical Christian church. They are a friendly family church, in the heart of Milton Keynes.
Victim Support Milton Keynes - Aims to provide victims of crimes appropriate and sufficient information to assist them in dealing with crimes which they have experienced.
Milton Keynes IVC - Social activities for fun loving people ages 20 to 35. How to join, activities and club rules.
HULA Animal Rescue - Provides sanctuary for dogs, cats and other domestic animals until new homes can be found.
Milton Keynes Buddhism - Information about Buddhism in the area including a meditative arts project.
Church of Christ the Cornerstone - Joint Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist and United Reformed church. Team, tour, chaplain, diary, history and activities.
Saint Edward The Confessor - Catholic church in Shenley Church End to the west of the city. Mass times, contact details, parish history and newsletter.
Our Lady of Lourdes - Catholic parish. Mass times, contact details, profile of the Parish Priest plus newsletter (in PDF format).
Milton Keynes Linux User Group - Group who hold regular local monthly meetings at the Open University aim to provide advice and support to computer users before, during and after they install the Linux operating system. Details of past and future meetings, web-site projects and mailing list information.
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Society and Culture How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "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) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Society and Culture To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Society and Culture In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Society and Culture Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Society and Culture "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Society and Culture The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "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) Society and Culture Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Society and Culture This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Society and Culture Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson "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) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Society and Culture "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Society and Culture I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Society and Culture
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