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Devon and Cornwall Police Force - Regional policing information and advice, includes an online survey and children's section.
Appledore Historical Society - Local history society's memories and pictures of days gone by in Appledore, North Devon.
Devon Social Group - A friendly club for those living in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset. Make new friends and enjoy a great social life. Huge range of organised activities and events.
British Drinking Team - The official home page of a drinking organisation.
Petsearch UK - Devon Area Co-ordinator - Contact details for local co-ordinator of this national organisation for reuniting lost and found pets with their owners.
Queen's Rangers, 1st American Regiment, - Devon, England-based reenactment group for the first British Army regiment to wear green. Site includes historical information about the regiment, including photographs, as well as calendar and membership information.
Kingskerswell Alliance - Coalition of local residents opposed to the construction of the Torbay Link Road into Devon. Includes photograph gallery, news, and related links.
Caught in the Web: Bytes of Torbay's Past - An introduction to the history of three Devon coastal towns, and the life, times and work of a number of famous people who lived or stayed in the Bay.
Torbay Civic Society - Aims to preserve and promote the area's heritage and community. Society news, information and details of events.
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Society and Culture "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Society and Culture Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Society and Culture One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Society and Culture 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 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. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Society and Culture "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Society and Culture By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Society and Culture All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Society and Culture Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Society and Culture Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Society and Culture Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Society and Culture When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet 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 Society and Culture Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Society and Culture Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Society and Culture He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Society and Culture Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Society and Culture Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Society and Culture
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