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	Hart Voluntary Action - Organisation providing services , information, liaison,development work and training for community groups in the local Hart District areas.
	The Parish of Fleet - The leadership, history and services of this parish church, plus news, diary, links and reports together with information about marriage and baptism preparation, bereavement visiting, newcomers visiting and choir and youth groups.

I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Society and Culture "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Society and Culture There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Society and Culture Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Society and Culture The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Society and Culture Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Society and Culture "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) 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 Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Society and Culture A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Society and Culture "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Society and Culture "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Society and Culture "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "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 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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Society and Culture Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Society and Culture Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Society and Culture "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "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 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Society and Culture "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." 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