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Bill Whitehead's Ruskin College Website - Existing and former students to use for sharing information.
Derby (Bass Street) Christadephians - Explanation of various doctrines and location.
The Derby Midshipmen Carnival Band - Information on this group.
Derby Church Net - An online resource about churches within the Derby area.
Derby Cathedral - Cathedral website with information about notices and events, sermons, music and people associated with the Cathedral.
Woodlands - An evangelical church based in Allestree in Derby, catering for all ages group. Contains details about what's on, church groups and information about Christianity.
Derby Heritage Development Trust - An organisation formed to promote and preserve Derby's rich heritage. Information about places of interest, events, Derby's industrial past, historical timeline and local links page.
Padley Group - Derby based charity founded in 1985, working with the most deprived and excluded people in the local community, such as the homeless and those with mental health problems.
St Giles' Church - Anglican evangelical church, information on services and community life. [Based in Normanton]
Derby HEART - Information for people concerned about the environmental effects of the City Council's "Connecting Derby" proposals for inner city road building.
Derby Stop the War Coalition - The website for the local stop the war coalition.
Derby TV/TS Group - A non-profit publisher's imprint regarding gender.
Derby YMCA- Index - Details on the residential accommodation available plus the wide choice of sports, social and recreational facilities provided by this charitable organization.
St John's Methodist Church - In Allestree and lists activities, events, mission statement, location and minister's message. Part of the Derby (Derwent Mission) circuit.
Soroptimist International Derby - The local branch of an organisation for women in management and professions. Provides club contact and project information, calendar of events and news.
Anti Social Behaviour Team - Youth Offending Service - Anti-social behaviour unit, focusing on crime reduction solutions for the City Council area.
Mickleover Methodist Church - Offers services, mission statement, activities and events.
Findern Parish Council - Parish Council website for the Findern area with details of activities and groups.
Tara Buddhist Centre - A Kadampa Mahayana Buddhist college located at Ashe Hall. Visitors are invited to find out more about life within a Buddhist community.
Derbypolice - Police community website for residents of Oakwood.
Castlefields Church - Information on the church and its activities as well as online sermons. Located in the city center.
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Society and Culture "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Society and Culture You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Society and Culture I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Society and Culture It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Society and Culture "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Society and Culture The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Society and Culture "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Society and Culture I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Society and Culture My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Society and Culture blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Society and Culture "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Society and Culture "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Society and Culture "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
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