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Supporting Children with Special Needs - Small site but with some links to other organisations
Watfoe - Watford Friends of the Earth - News about the local group which works for a greener environment in the Watford and Three Rivers districts.
Holy Rood RC Church - The parish is part of the Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese. Activities and local history pages.
Watford Conservative Association - Includes newsletter, councillor contact details, information about membership, events, and branches.
NR's New Revelations - Personal pages hosted as an MSN community. Includes friends of Neil Richardson, Parmiter's School, discussions, photos, links, events, jokes, cartoons, recommendations, music, movies, Christianity.
Meriden Labour Party - Profile, representatives, news and information about the ward.
Watford Vineyard - Contemporary Christian church founded in September 2002. Briefly describes the organisation and includes contact details.
Watford Irish Club - Social club. Profile, events, facilities, sports and membership information.
Highlands Oxhey Estate - Describes grievances against the local council and developers with diary and forums.
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church - Mass times, parish groups, parish history.
Delrow - Member of the Camphill Village Trust, offering residential and day placements for adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems. Information on the college, therapies, facilities, and volunteer opportunities.
Trinity Methodist Church - Details of worship, message from the minister, news and how to find the church.
Watford Women's Centre - Includes history, plus details of services, training and support offered to women in the area.
Bushey and Oxhey Methodist Church - Offers service times, locations, missions, fair trade and contact.
Watford Hindu Group - Offer classes in the Gujarati language and other art and cultural activities. Member list, details of classes and forthcoming events.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Society and Culture Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown Society and Culture Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan 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 I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Society and Culture The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Society and Culture The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning "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) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society and Culture We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Society and Culture If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "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 Society and Culture "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Society and Culture To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton 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 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Society and Culture "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Society and Culture Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Society and Culture "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) 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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Society and Culture The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Society and Culture One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Society and Culture "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Society and Culture
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