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Chelmsford Spanish Circle - A club for Spanish speakers. Includes about us page, members, meetings, tuition, poems and contact details.
Sovereign Giving - A Christian charity which can recover Income Tax on charitable gifts. Includes description of services and contact details.
Chelmsford Chess - Provides instant access overnight accommodation for single men and women in the Night Shelter and Rough Sleepers' Unit.
Essex Community Foundation - Grantmaking from its own endowments and helps individuals, businesses and statutory organisations to distribute charitable budgets.
Chelmsford Youth Council - Represents young people between the age of 11 and 21. Information on projects, how to join, contact information and members area.
Boreham Conservation Society - List of activities and details of its opposition to the Chelmsford Borough Council Local Plan for the area.
Alzheimer's Society Mid Essex - Offers support to families and others concerned and dealing with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Resource centre, services offered and contact.
Chelmsford and District Branch of the Cat's Protection League - Charity helping cats and kittens. Homes wanted, lost pets, help required, sponsorship, membership and forthcoming events.
Families InFocus (Essex) - Charity, based in Chelmsford and covering the whole of Essex, which supports families of children with disabilities and special needs. Services offered, volunteers, helpline and diary.
Disability Access Centre and Transcription Service - The Centre provides services on a commercial basis including Braille, Large Print and Audio formats. Provides Awareness Training and Access Audits.
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Society and Culture The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei May you never leave your marriage alive. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Society and Culture All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Society and Culture "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Society and Culture "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Society and Culture Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Society and Culture The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Society and Culture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Society and Culture They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Society and Culture "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 Society and Culture I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Society and Culture "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Society and Culture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture
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