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Showstoppers - Southampton University Students' Union Musical Theatre gives its members the opportunity to expand their talents and learn new skills.
Hamble-le-Rice - Homepage type community site by someone who live in the village. Links to information of interest to other villagers and local links.
Smart Cities - Details of the smart card project in Southampton city centre. Project overviews and news, faqs and other information.
Society of St James - A voluntary organisation set up to help single homeless people in the Southampton area. Funded by grants, rent and donations, they manage a direct access Night Shelter, Move-on schemes, self contained flats and several mental health projects.
Bellway User Group - Protests about the redevelopment of St Mary's Street by the company.
Solent Vegetarians and Vegans - Social events, campaigns and advice on finding suitable restaurants, shops and accommondation in the area.
Southampton Labour Party - Information about the Labour Party in Southampton, the local Labour council and the local Labour members of parliament.
The Society of St James - Registered charity providing accommodation with care and support to those who are homeless or vulnerably housed. Information on services, donations, volunteering and jobs.
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Society and Culture Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Society and Culture Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray 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 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln "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) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Society and Culture I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Society and Culture Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Society and Culture "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Society and Culture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Society and Culture "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Society and Culture The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Society and Culture Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen 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 Society and Culture Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon "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) Society and Culture I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers "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) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Society and Culture Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Society and Culture
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