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Rotaract in the Thames Valley - Clubs for 18 to 29 year olds in the Thames Valley area, including 6 clubs in South Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire Forum - A place to trade honest opinions on anything happening in Bucks. Topics include places of interest, hobbies, jobs, gossip and news. Chat room.
Megated - A site for the village of Stewkley, near Milton Keynes, Leighton Buzzard and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
Wycombe Radio - Details of activities and history, which began broadcasting in 1967 to Wycombe General hospital, and the service was later extended to the hospital in Amersham.
Ashendon - Community site explaining the village history, photos with archive back to 1995, current life and facilities in the countryside west of Aylesbury.
Chilterns American Women's Club - Description of activities of CAWC to help newcomers adjust to and enjoy their expatriate stay, related links, membership details and form for applying to their base in Gerrards Cross.
Hughenden Valley Residents Association - Resource featuring planning issues, schools, sports links, news, clubs, local venues and other events on outskirts of High Wycombe, in Bryants Bottom, Cryers Hill and Great Kingshill.
Buckingham, Winslow & District Scouts - Information on scouting in the area, including photos of past events and a program of future events for explorers, with email contacts for leaders, including Stewkley.
Redfield Community - An intentional community situated in North Buckinghamshire, England, organized a fully mutual housing co-operative with the goal of sustainability. News, description of the estate, event announcements, and related links provided.
Link-Up Group - A new group desined to facilitate contact between those who feel isolated, or lonely, for whatever reason. It aims to offer support friendship and support.
Ickford Village - Community site for this village. Includes history, events and organisations.
Buckinghamshire Photographs - Searchable online collection of over 20,000 photographs of old Buckinghamshire, accumulated by the Museum, Library and Record Office.
Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire - Images of Hughenden Manor, home of Benjamin Disraeli.
Stokenchurch and Radnage Community Action Forum - Aims to develop a joint Parish Action Plan for the benefit of residents.
Chilterns American Women's Club - Formed to help newcomers adjust more easily and enjoy their stay as an expatriate in England. Information on membership, activites, and links to related sites.
Wingrave - History, buildings, life and development of the village of Wingrave.
Buckingham Canal - Buckingham Branch of the Grand Junction Canal. Information from 1792 when plans for it were announced through to the start of restorations in 1992. Includes maps and interviews.
High Ash Highways and Byways - A detailed look at the villages of Great Brickhill and Little Brickhill, also including lesser details of Stoke Hammond, history of the railways and Great Union Canal locally.
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Society and Culture A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Society and Culture Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell 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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Society and Culture Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Society and Culture If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Society and Culture I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal 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 Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Society and Culture It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Society and Culture "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln "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) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman 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 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Society and Culture The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Society and Culture You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Society and Culture Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Society and Culture "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Society and Culture I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Society and Culture
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