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Huntingdonshire Society - A society upholding and championing the traditional County of Huntingdonshire.
Huntingdonshire Community Church - Lively charismatic church, meeting at the Performing Arts Centre, Hinchingbrooke on Sunday mornings. Also offers Alpha courses and children's activities.
HuntSNAP - Campaign against proposals to develop Alconbury airfield as an integrated road/rail/air freight centre.
Huntingdonshire Local History Society - Runs monthly lectures and research programmes relating to this historic county. Includes information on forthcoming events and details of a fund for encouraging research into the county's history.
Huntingdonshire Family History Society - Society for the promotion of family history and genealogical research in the old county of Huntingdonshire. Registered Charity.
Huntingdon Team Ministry - A sub site of Anglican.org contains information about the religious groups in Huntingdon who have joined together as a Team Ministry. Contains a who's who and lots of event details.
Indian Association (Huntingdon) - Aims to gather together Indians of all religions and backgrounds to help maintain their culture by organising events and establishing themselves as a voice for their community.
Old Huntingdonians - Meeting point for alumni of Huntingdon Grammar School (now Hinchingbrooke School). The school counts Samuel Pepys amongst its alumni, although you won't meet him at this web page...
Huntingdon Methodist Church - Details of services and other activities including... Boys Brigade, Girls Brigade, Men's Club Ladies fellowship.
The Cromwell Association - An introduction to Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), his life and significance, highlighting organisations and events commemorating the 400th anniversary of his birth an Huntingdon on April 25th 1599. Links to other sites of interest.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown Society and Culture "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 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Society and Culture Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) 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 Society and Culture "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture 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. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Society and Culture "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Society and Culture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "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) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Society and Culture "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Society and Culture The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem Society and Culture This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot 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 Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Society and Culture "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce 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 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
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