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This Is Derbyshire - Derby Evening Telegraph online site. Comprensive information about the county.
Derbyshire UK - A guide to the county and the lower Peak District including its towns and villages,dales, curiosities, famous connections, attractions, events, local business and accommodations.
Derbyshire Police - News and details about the constabulary.
Kinder Mountain Rescue Team - Mountain rescue team providing search and rescue services in this moorland area.
Chevinside in the Peak District - Directory about this area.
Peak Forest Village - Brief introduction to this village in the Peak District.
Derbyshire Online - Information on local businesses, careers, sports and hobbies, tourism and local events.
The Holy Well - Howard Usher's account of the Holy Well, King's Newton.
Tideswell Online - Called the official web site of this village with news, information, photographs, history, events and local links.
Butterley Ripley Derbyshire - Local Community site and directory.
Hartshorne - Includes news, information, photographs, history and present day activities of the village.
Derbyshire Pages - Links directory for many County sites.
A guide to North East Derbyshire - Includes a list of towns and villages, walks and links.
newmillsweb.com - Community website for this High Peak town. Information and photographs about local organisations, activities, events, services and businesses.
Swadlincote Online - Local information, photographs and map.
The Willington Web Site - Located mid-way between Derby and Burton. Information about the village for locals and visitors.
Winster Village - Information about facilities, activities and organisations in this village.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust - Aims to raise awareness of potential threats and to encourage people to care for their local environment. Includes an interactive map of thirty-six nature reserves, information about projects, school visits, news and events.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Derbyshire "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Derbyshire I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Derbyshire They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Derbyshire Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Derbyshire Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom 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 In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Derbyshire "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein 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 Derbyshire "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, blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant Derbyshire Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi 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 Derbyshire The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Derbyshire "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Derbyshire Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Derbyshire "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Derbyshire And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Derbyshire Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Derbyshire Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Derbyshire Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Derbyshire "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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 Derbyshire "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Derbyshire The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Derbyshire "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Derbyshire This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Derbyshire
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