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Darlington and County Durham Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Centre - Provides a service for women who have experienced any form of sexual violence. Includes an overview of help offered, contacts and related links.
All Saints and Salutation Church, Blackwell - Anglican Parish Church serving the West End of Darlington
Darlington Domestic Violence Forum - A working partnership of agencies to improve service provision for victims of domestic violence. Provides information on the law, a news room, events, and contacts.
Darlington Bond Scheme - Charity providing details of their strategy to cover landlords bond for local rented property. Also includes a list of properties to let.
Darlington Nightstop - Volunteers provide emergency accommodation in their own homes for local, young homeless people.
The Parishes of St Teresa's and St William's RC Churches - Includes church histories, services and events, organisations, primary school, location and contacts.
S James the Great - Includes details of the clergy, services and activities, history and contact information.
Gay Advice Darlington - Gay mens charity offering information, advice and support to the gay and bisexual mens community including youth group, switchboard, and one to one support.
St Augustine's RC Church - Contact details, bulletin, Mass times, parish groups, youth page, photo gallery and parish history.
Vibrant Futures - Seeks to empower and train young people to create a brighter future for themselves and society. Details of training, staff and projects.
Advance Employment - Initiative by The Morrison Enterprise Trust and Darlington Borough Council to help disabled people develop rewarding careers in the workplace.
The Church in Darlington - Details of churches around the town. Includes news, events, action, prayer requests and links to local church sites.
Elm Ridge Methodist Church - Services, aims, becoming a Christian, church team, activities, mission, events, contact and links.
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Society and Culture The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Society and Culture The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Society and Culture Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Society and Culture I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands 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 Society and Culture No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck Society and Culture In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Society and Culture Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Society and Culture That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Society and Culture It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Society and Culture Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Society and Culture Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Society and Culture Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Society and Culture I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Society and Culture The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward "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." What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
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