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Sedgefield Players - An award winning amateur dramatics group based in Sedgefield. Along with their Youth Section, they put on four public performances a year, including an annual drama festival and a pantomime. Ticket information.

Sedgefield Racecourse - Horse racing and corporate hospitality. Includes fixtures, online ticket buying and events schedule.

The Dun Cow - Offers accommodation, food and beer. Provides details of facilities, tariffs, menus and local community events and attractions.

Todds House Farm - Offers family lodging and bed and breakfast. Includes details of facilities, prices, directions and local attractions.

Sedgefield.Net - Business directory, community pages, churches, art gallery, history, Tony Blair, showbiz news, chat/notice board, latest football and sports news. Run by Sedgefield Town Council.

Sedgefield Village - Community website for residents. Details of history, local activities, tourism and genealogy.

Professional Business Solutions - Office services including typing, bookkeeping, debt collection, telesales and marketing. Information on services, costs and enquiry form.

Overland Club - Offers adventure tours to Africa, Oceania, South America, Middle East and Asia. Online booking, information about the destinations and message board.

Pub lunch ending Bush's UK visit - President Bush ended his visit to the UK with lunch in a pub in Tony Blair's constituency of Sedgefield.

Edward F Lowe - Profile of a firm of Chartered Certified Accountants with details of their accountancy and consultancy services and a summary of tax information.

Carpets at Home - Offers floorcoverings, curtains and blinds from premises in the town and via a home selection service. Includes details of the various brands available and contact information.

Sedgefield Community College, Class of '87 - Alumni of the college who graduated in 1987, with reunion details and photographs.

"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 blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Sedgefield Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sedgefield "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Sedgefield No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Sedgefield He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Sedgefield "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Sedgefield Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V Sedgefield If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Sedgefield "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Sedgefield Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Sedgefield Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Sedgefield "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Sedgefield blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Sedgefield If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Sedgefield "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Sedgefield "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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. Sedgefield Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Sedgefield The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Sedgefield The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Sedgefield We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Sedgefield 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' "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Sedgefield A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Sedgefield
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