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Thurrock Camera Club - Affiliated to the East Anglian Federation. Includes description of services offered with pictures and contact details.
Thurrock Choral Society - A Local sociable organisation of singers. Includes forthcoming performances, contact details and history.
Rosedale Road Allotments Association - Information about the group, their activities and membership; includes details of their campaign to preserve the sites, currently under threat.
Thurrock Yacht Club - Information for members and prospective members. Overview, joining, location and members area.
Thurrock Swimming Club - Offers background and joining information, guidance for swimmers and photos.
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Recreation and Sports "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "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." "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Recreation and Sports A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Recreation and Sports Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Recreation and Sports "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) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Recreation and Sports CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Recreation and Sports Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Recreation and Sports blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Recreation and Sports A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce Recreation and Sports "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports
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