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Halstead Online - Provides an indepth view of the town with original Victorian and Edwardian photographs and current day photography.
Parish of St.Andrews with Holy Trinity - Information about the church and its activities.
Halstead Amateur Swimming Club - Offers records, rules, fixture list, gala reports and personal best times. [May not work in all browsers]
Empire Theatre - Independent cinema, with details of film showing times, future screenings and shows, reviews and the history of the cinema.
Connect Halstead - Local campaign for broadband. Progress information for enabling nearby exchanges, how to register and ISP details.
Halstead Road Runners - Running club, catering for all levels. Diary, races, results, training, news, standards and how to join.
Halstead Mind - Support group for Mental Health sufferers. Includes a brief description with contact details and a link to the national organisation.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Halstead "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Halstead Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Halstead Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Halstead "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Halstead What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Halstead 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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Halstead "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Halstead The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Halstead Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Halstead Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Halstead I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm 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 Halstead There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Halstead Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson My other wife is beautiful. To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Halstead Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Halstead Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Halstead Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Halstead A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Halstead Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Halstead Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Halstead The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Halstead The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Halstead
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