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Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Friends of the Earth - Local environmental group which campaigns on a range of local issues. Site provides press releases and information about membership and campaigns.
St Bartholomew Church of England - Clay Cross Anglican Church
Chesterfield Liberal Democrats - Contacts for County, Borough and Parish Councillors, Parliamentary Spokesman Paul Holmes, Nick Clegg East Midlands MEP and the local Party.
Derbyshire Foxes - Fox welfare group covering the Notts, Derby and Sheffield areas which rescues and rehabilitates sick, injured and orphaned foxes.
North Derbyshire Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Association - To improve the conditions and quality of life for the local GLB community. Listing of services, related links, and contact information.
stevesphotos - A personal collection of photographs with various galleries.
The Calling UK - A personal site spreading the word of God.
Central Methodist Church - Presents services, activities, Alpha course, children and young people, beliefs, aims, history, news, coffee shop, testimonies, resources, counselling, contact, location and links.
Mount Tabor Methodist Church - Includes services, news, events, photos, history, people and local information.
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Society and Culture Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Society and Culture Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Society and Culture He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Society and Culture I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Society and Culture "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Society and Culture He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright "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 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Society and Culture "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Society and Culture The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Society and Culture A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Society and Culture "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb 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 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) 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 Society and Culture Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Society and Culture What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Society and Culture
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