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Char Valley Parish Council - The Parish web site for group of parishes of Whitchurch Canonicorum, Wootton Fitzpaine and Stanton St Gabriel. Includes information on Councillors and Officers, planning applications, meetings, gallery, map and contact details.

Thornhackett Parish Council - Official site for the villages of Beer Hackett and Thornford. Includes information on the area, local businesses, Council information and contact details.

Dorset County Council - Information aimed primarily at the local population including schools information and details on the council's structure.

We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Government What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Government In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Government Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Government The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Government There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Government Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Government The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Government "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Government "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Government Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland 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. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Government "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Government Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Government My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Government And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what Government then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Government The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Government I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner 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 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Government The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks "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) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Government Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Government Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 Government "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Government
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