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King Alfred's Middle School - This is the middle school in Shaftesbury, Dorset, catering for 9-13 year olds .
Stalbridge Linen Services - Laundry and linen hire for the caterer. A very large service area. Based in Stalbridge and Shaftesbury.
Wessex Fire and Security - Family firm established in 1963 for fire detection and security products & services.
Shaftesbury Comprehensive - A thriving voluntary controlled upper school for 13-18 year olds with some boarding places. Boys and girls of all abilities, from 10-18 years, are eligible for boarding places
Melbury Motor Company, Shaftesbury, Dorset - Quality Used Cars, Fiat Specialist, Alfa Romeo Specialist, Imported cars, Imports, Servicing and MOT in Shaftesbury, Dorset
Shaftesburydorset.com - A site dedicated to tourism, accommodation, and local information for Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Mayhem Quad Biking - Quad Biking for corporate fun days, hen parties, stag parties, anniversaries and birthdays - The complete solution for a fun packed day - Based in & around Shaftesbury.
Blackfoot Giftshop - A site offering native American artifacts, beads and an insight into their mysterious culture, based in Shaftesbury.
Sturgess and Sturgess - A long established Dorset builder working in Wiltshire and Somerset.
North Dorset District Scout Homepage - This site lists everything that the Scouts in North Dorset have done, are doing and what they hope to do.
Tully Decorators - Painting & Decorating specialist based in Shaftesbury. Dorset.
Pictureframes.co.uk - Picture frames, framing, custom-made frames, mouldings and mounts.
Forge Audio - Suppliers, designers and installers of home cinema and Hi-fi equipment throughout the UK, based in Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Blackmore Vale Amateur Radio Society - An amateur radio club based in the town. Site includes information about the club, news items, online journal and archive with contact details.
Images of Myth & Enchantment - Paintings & Prints for sale on-line, by Wendy Andrew, based in Shaftesbury. Subjects include Arthurian Legend, Myth, Dragons, Faeries and Wildlife.
finishingsolutions.net - Premier Presentations for Laminating and Encapsulating pouches & film. Book binding, combs, wire, thermal and adhesive binding equipment, machines and supplies.
Premier Presentations - Xyron range of machines, We have the machines for Hobbies, Education, Commerce, Crafts, Art and Stamp applications.
The Grove Arms Inn - Site for the Grove Arms at Ludwell that offers clean comfortable accommodation together with home cooked food.
1st UK Wills - UK wills online, low cost wills and will writers for Scotland & England. Making a will couldn't be easlier. See have fast it is to make your online wills, last will and testament.
Shaftesbury OnLine - Shaftesburys own e-Learning centre based in the centre of town, drop in access to PCs and the 'net, and a large range of courses, including our own, Dorset Adult Education, and LearnDirect
Hine Motors Ltd - New and used Ford car dealership and service centre. Includes a brochure request service, details of cars available through the Internet, opening hours and contact information.
Art by Phyllis Wolff - An artist based in the town, her work includes landscape paintings of the local area.
Shaftesbury Abbey - From AD 888 to 1539 Shaftesbury Abbey was one of the most important in the country.
Shastonian.org. - The Website for Old Boys and staff of Shaftesbury Grammar School and Old Girls and staff of Shaftesbury High School
Poulton Portables - A company which manufactures timber buildings. Includes details and photographs of the company product range and contact information.
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 The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Shaftesbury Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Shaftesbury Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Shaftesbury "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Shaftesbury Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Shaftesbury Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Shaftesbury There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Shaftesbury Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Shaftesbury Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Shaftesbury "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shaftesbury The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Shaftesbury No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Shaftesbury Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt 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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Shaftesbury Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Shaftesbury There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Shaftesbury 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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Shaftesbury A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shaftesbury Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Shaftesbury My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shaftesbury Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Shaftesbury Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Shaftesbury "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "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) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Shaftesbury
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