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Durham Region Local Training Board - Operates as a link between the communities in the region and the government on issues of training and adjustment. Includes its history, board of governors, news and facts, FAQs, and related resources .
2D - Provide support and guidance for the voluntary and community sector . Offers information on the organisation and structure, jobs and volunteer opportunities, news and events, and contacts.
A Brief History of Durham - Text of an essay by Tim Lambert.
Beccy's Personal Page - About Beccy, an MS sufferer and Shopmobility in Durham.
The City of Durham Trust - Society set up in 1942 by local people who saw the need to conserve and encourage the appreciation of the historic City and its surroundings. Includes public enquiry reports, licensing in the City, newsletter, archives and membership.
Durham Heritage Centre - Exhibitions and video presentations about local industries, businesses, buildings, people and traditions.
Ian A Blease - A brief story of his return to degree study at Durham University as a part-time student.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson "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) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed 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 Society and Culture I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Society and Culture "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Society and Culture "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Society and Culture He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Society and Culture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams 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 Society and Culture I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Society and Culture What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Society and Culture There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Society and Culture "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Society and Culture I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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 Society and Culture If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
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