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Victoria Community Centre - The centre is also a school for some 750+ pupils. The leisure side is operated by Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council and Cheshire County Council.
Bob's website - Over fifty pages of information from South Cheshire including five-a-side football, humour, picture galleries and music.
Betley Local History Society - A society recording the documented and pictorial history of a village which lies on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border in the heart of England.
The Rigby's Website - Contains family information, and description of interests with photographs, including vehicle models, aircraft, helicopters, armour, tanks, Formula One cars, hedgehogs and aromatherapy.
Amitayus Kadampa Buddhist Centre - The centre caters for all levels of interest and gives information on classes, events and festivals.
Crewe Methodist Circuit - Offers staff, details of its nine churches, Bible, youth groups, news, contact and links.
Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum of Primitive Methodism - Housed in the old primitive Methodist Chapel of Englesea Brook. Overview, local history, Victorian religious education, Hugh Bourne, William Clowes and opening times.
Railway Children - Charity working for the runaway and abandoned children who live in or around the world's railway stations.
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Society and Culture "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Society and Culture "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi 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) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Society and Culture Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Society and Culture Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Society and Culture "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Society and Culture The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Society and Culture For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Society and Culture "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Society and Culture Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Society and Culture I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Society and Culture "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
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