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Brighton Peace and Environment Centre - Fair trade shop, lending library and education unit promoting awareness of peace, justice and environment issues. Also provides computer/internet facilities.
Wallis's Royal Edition: Brighton As It Is, 1836 - The full text on-line of a guide book to fashionable Brighton, published in 1836, containing coloured images and detailed descriptions of the town's history and attractions.
My Brighton and Hove - Community internet project. Tour Brighton and Hove using this online adaptation of the award-winning 'people's history' created by local residents and volunteers. New contributions from the year 2000 are featured.
SchNEWS - The weekly newsletter from Justice? - Brighton's direct action collective.
Mary Wandia Njuguna - A tribute in honour of Mary.
Brighton Friends - Searchable database of people, their schools, workplaces and leaving dates. Requires registration.
North Laine Community Association - Community pages with news, events, history and an online version of their monthly newspaper.
Nine Lives - A campaign to promote sustainable lifestyles in the city. Describes the experiences of nine volunteers.
Rottingdean Past and Present - A history of the village of Rottingdean with images.
Regency Square Area Society - Describes its conservation and neighbourliness objectives with news, local directory and membership information.
Metropole Hotel in Brighton in History - A walkthrough tour of this famous 1890 hotel in its splendour with now and then photographs.
Brighton & Hove Fairtrade City - Campaigns to raise awareness and gain the support of local people, businesses and the city council. Profile, activities and local outlets.
East Brighton City Farm - Describes this project with news and FAQ.
Brighton and Hove Cats Protection - Local branch of a national cat charity. Offers adoption, lost and found, pet advice, news, how to help and what to do for a feline in need of welfare rescue.
Sussex Heights Residents Association - Constitution, newsletters and accounts.
Brighton and Hove Camera Club - Information on the club and galleries of members' photography.
Brighton & Hove Federation of Disabled People - Charity which works to promote independence and dignity for people with disabilities. News, links and services including an advice centre, complementary therapies and counselling.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Society and Culture The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Society and Culture If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Society and Culture Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture 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 I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Society and Culture "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Society and Culture If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Society and Culture The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Society and Culture "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Society and Culture "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Society and Culture Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel 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) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Society and Culture
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