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Herts Bird Club - News, ornithological information, sightings, surveys and photos.
Hertfordshire Genealogy Forum - Popular genealogy forum moderated by a family history professional.
Hertfordshire Family and Population History Society - Information about the committee, membership, publications, projects, and meetings.
Turner Logs - Part of the Turner Logs series, 'The Aviator's Apprentice' by Chris Davey. Follow links for story excerpts, pictures of early aviators and the planes they flew.
Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust - Educational charity providing professional services. Describes training, information, advice and practical facilities, services, clients, news and a gallery of past projects and finds.
Hockerill Boarding School Old Scholars Website - Includes former pupils, old school photographs and reunions.
Citizens Advice Bureau - If you are unsure regarding your rights, find yourself faced with a situation you don't understand, believe that you have been unfairly treated in some way or whatever else may have arisen, then do get in touch with your local CAB to see if they can assist you.
Essex and Hertfordshire Churches - Essex church photographs. Includes brief description.
Age Concern Hertfordshire - Promotes the well-being of all older people to help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. Information about services, events, campaigns, and volunteer opportunities.
Hertfordshire Archive - A digital archive of articles about the county dating back to the 1950s.
Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary and Saint Joseph - Includes Mass times, parish groups, contact details in newsletter archive. Boxmoor.
St Andrews Methodist Church, Bushey Heath - Service details, news, location details and history of the church.
Barnet Methodist Circuit - Details of the churches in this grouping and news.
Lea Valley North Methodist Circuit - Details of churches which make up this grouping. Mission statement, Network news, NCH and history.
North Hertfordshire Methodist Circuit - Covers Hitchin, Letchworth, Stevenage and surrounding villages. Service and contact details for the churches in the grouping.
St Albans and Welwyn Circuit of the Methodist Church - Covers St Albans, Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City together with the villages of Digswell, Knebworth, Redbourn, Shenley and Smallford. Churches, news, diary, ministry and contact.
The Niland Conference Centre - Day conference centre for religious and educational purposes. Programme of events. Located in Bushey Heath.
The Holy Cross - Catholic parish sharing the Anglican church of St Andrews. Directions, history and news and events. Located in Much Hadham.
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Society and Culture In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Society and Culture In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Society and Culture "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Society and Culture I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Society and Culture "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Society and Culture "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Society and Culture What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig 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 Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Society and Culture And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Society and Culture Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Society and Culture A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston "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) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Society and Culture
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