Dover Underground - History of and a guide to tunnels and bunkers under the town, including examples of cave art.
354 (Dover) Squadron - Local squadron of the Air Training Corps. Includes staff and NCOs, history, benefits of enrolling, location and past events.
Kent Action against Live Exports (KALE) - Organised to stop live animal exports through legal, peaceful demonstrations at the Dover port and around the various lairages/farms connected with the trade.
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Society and Culture The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger 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 . . .
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Society and Culture "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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Society and Culture Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Society and Culture The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Society and Culture
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Society and Culture Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Society and Culture When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Society and Culture
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Society and Culture "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Society and Culture
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Society and Culture If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Society and Culture
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp 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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Society and Culture
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture
