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Cleveland History - History of various areas.
Genealogical Research in Cleveland - An overview of the available resources for genealogical research in the area of the ancient Wapentake of Langbaurgh.
Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society - Studies the history of the northern region including Cleveland, Teesside, Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool, and North Yorkshire. Describes meetings and activities, publications, and membership information.
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb "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) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Society and Culture To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Society and Culture 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 Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Society and Culture I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Society and Culture In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Society and Culture I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Society and Culture Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "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) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson Society and Culture They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 Society and Culture Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Society and Culture I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Society and Culture "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George Society and Culture
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