Carlisle Volunteer Bureau - They support local voluntary organisations in advertising any voluntary vacancies and helps them to find volunteers to fill any positions.
Carlisle Budokan - Karate-do Wado Kai club news and information on when they meet.
Carlisle People First - A group which is run by and for people who are labelled as having a learning difficulty. They provide self, citizen and crisis advocacy and also a circles of support scheme throughout North East Cumbria.
Community Law Centre - Information about where to access free legal advice in Carlisle.
Dalston Village Community Web Site - Community web site for the parish of Dalston, Cumbria. Carries news, views, events, history, business, organisations - in fact everything that happens in and around Dalston parish.
Kirkbampton Online - A guide to the places of interest and history of the village of Kirkbampton in North West Cumbria.
Carlisle Cathedral - Official guide to Carlisle Cathedral, founded in 1122, and one of the smallest cathedrals in England.
Kirkbampton District Village Hall - A local village hall run as a charity by local people. Hosts regular activity groups and caters for adult education and weddings.
Carlisle Christian Fellowship - Independent Christian Church. Affiliated to the Evangelical Alliance and Churches Together in Carlisle.
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-- Gloria Steinem We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
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-- Lord Byron Society and Culture
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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-- Carl Gustav Jung Study men, not historians.
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-- George Benard Shaw Society and Culture
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
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-- George Bernard Shaw If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
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"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
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-- Albert Einstein Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
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-- Russell Baker The covers of this book are too far apart.
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-- George Bernard Shaw 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
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-- Crow Society and Culture
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
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-- Victor Borge Society and Culture
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
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"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Society and Culture Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright And gain is gain, however small.
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