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Brentwood Round Table - Includes calendar, history, members and contact details.
The Hermitage Gallery - Opened in 1994 by the Essex Youth Service (Brentwood Locality) to provide a unique facility for showing the work of young artists.
Brentwood Theatre - Run for the community by Brentwood Theatre Trust Ltd, a registered charity.
Oakwood - A small, friendly sun club situated between Romford and Brentwood.
Ashley Jolly SAD Trust - The Ashley Jolly Sudden Adult Death Trust raises awareness about heart conditions in young people and provides information and support to bereaved families. Literature, world wide contacts and newsletters.
Hosiprog - Produces a wide range of feature and Drama programming for the UK's 350 strong Hospital Broadcasting network and Brentwoods internet radio station, Phoenix FM.
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Society and Culture A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Society and Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford May you never leave your marriage alive. Society and Culture Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. Society and Culture When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Society and Culture Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright "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 "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 "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 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "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) Society and Culture Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Society and Culture "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Society and Culture I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron 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 Society and Culture One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain 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 am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Society and Culture Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Society and Culture A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Society and Culture "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
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