Basildon Choral Society - The society's history, rehearsal information, programme, key members and guestbook.
Basildon Keyboard Club - Information on organ and keyboard concerts and clubs. Concert diary and information on players also featured.
Basvegas - Reviews of night clubs and restaurants.
Basildon Players - Amateur dramatics group who stage three productions a year ranging from comedy and pantomime to tragedy. Reviews, photographs and next production.
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-- G. K. Chesterton In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment The time is always right to do what is right.
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-- Judith Viorst It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
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-- Oscar Wilde Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
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-- Mother Theresa Arts and Entertainment
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
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-- Al Bernstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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people all Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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