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Fragile Environment - Personal pages of Robert Brown, environmental consultant. Includes CV, environmental concerns, online database of Bob Browns, marathon runs and information about his home town of Walmer.
Galdraheim Coven - An initiating, teaching, development and working Wiccan Coven of the Alexandrian tradition. Includes resources, newsletter, courses, coven structure and general witchcraft information and advice.
Saint Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Parish - Deal, Kent. Mass times, contact details, photos, bulletin.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Society and Culture And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Society and Culture "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar 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) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte 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" "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Society and Culture They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene Society and Culture Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Society and Culture My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Society and Culture History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Society and Culture I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni 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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Society and Culture "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Society and Culture Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Society and Culture We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Society and Culture A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Society and Culture "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Society and Culture To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins "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 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Society and Culture He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
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