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Duham Constabulary Brass Band - Provides information on future engagements, news, history, recent recordings, contacts and related links .
The Oriental Museum - Devoted to art and archaeology from cultures throughout the orient. Part of Durham University and includes information on the collections, news, services, and directions .
Durham City Arts - Independent arts agency offers details of festivals, schemes and grants .
Durham Student Theatre - Purpose is to help with productions, to provide workshops in all aspects of theatre and stage, and to liaise with the University Arts Council. Includes a shows calendar, auditions, backstage, contacts and membership details .
Durham Amateur Operatic Society - Provide performances of musicals, pantomimes and concerts . Includes future and past productions, news and links to related sites .
Rowan Studios - Provides information on the watercolour and pastel landscapes, town and seascapes by Gillie Cawthorne. Includes current and future exhibitions, image gallery and links to e-cards of the City .
Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band - Details a range of information including the band's history, diary of events, player profiles and photographs, and vacancies .
Durham Cathedral Organs - Includes forthcoming organ recitals, the organists, organ stoplist and a brief history.
Durham Writers - Offer support, encouragement and criticism to members. Includes texts and sound files of members work, a listing of member authors, group publications and contacts .
The Durham Singers - Versatile choir with a repertoire that ranges from medieval to modern. Offers information on its history, future programme of events, publications, and contacts .
Arts Attack - Project to provide information on the arts in the lower Deerness Valley. Includes a collection of poems created during a past workshop.
Durham University Orchestral Society - Provides a range of information for both members and non members including rehearsals, concert programme, conductors, and news .
Durham Shakespeare Group - Amateur group who can be hired for a small charge to perform a play at evening events. Photos and contact details.
The Durham Rams Sword and Morris Men - Meets, either to practise or to perform, on most Tuesday nights throughout the year. Offers information on members, history and dances.
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Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Arts and Entertainment For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Arts and Entertainment When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Arts and Entertainment blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Arts and Entertainment 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 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Arts and Entertainment There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Arts and Entertainment Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe Arts and Entertainment A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Arts and Entertainment There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Arts and Entertainment All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Arts and Entertainment I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Arts and Entertainment Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Arts and Entertainment "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Arts and Entertainment
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