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Wedding of Seymour and Katherine - Family oriented humour relating to the wedding of Seymour and Katherine Jacklin, with photographic images and commentary.
The Percy Hedley Foundation - A charity for children and adults with cerebral palsy and children and adults with speech, language and communication difficulties.
Durham & Northumberland Fuchsia Society - Provide details of meeting times and locations, annual show, and officials . Includes species pictures and related links .
County Durham Environmental Trust - Use the landfill tax monies on projects, programmes and activities which would bring substantial and lasting benefit to the environment of county . Includes operating princoples, small grants scheme, and contacts.
History of North East England - County Durham - Origins and stories, organised by area and town.
Lartington Parish Plan - Provides details of a local initiative claiming to make improvements in the village for the benefit of local people. Includes a photo gallery, questionnaire and details of meetings.
Directions Information Services - Maintain a database of links and resources for vulnerable people in crisis. Information includes specialist holidays, mobility matters, counselling to support groups, and clubs.
County Durham Probation Service - Supervise offenders in the community. Provides information on its aims, funding, staffing, workload, and contacts .
Wheatley Hill History - A detailed chronology of the village with photographic images and biographies of its residents.
Youth Aloud - Aimed at young people in the region. Details of forums, road shows, youth parliament and advice.
Alzheimer's Society - Durham and Chester-le-Street Branch of the dementia care and research charity. Details of research, support and ways to fundraise or give.
Catchgate - Photographs and description of Catchgate village near Stanley.
County Durham Foundation - Independent grant giving local charity whose aim is to help individuals, families and companies set up new charitable funds to help the local community. Includes details of grants, board members and contacts .
One Voice Network - Represent community and voluntary groups across the whole of the County. Features communities of interest, events, and publications.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Society and Culture 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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Society and Culture There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle 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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Society and Culture Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb Society and Culture 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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Society and Culture A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Society and Culture A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture 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 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture "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 "'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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Society and Culture 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 "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Society and Culture "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Society and Culture We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. 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