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Knowhere Guide to Hinckley - Informal information about Hinckley, supplied by locals. With links to noticeboard facility. Aimed at teenage surfers, skateboarders and young people in general.
Hinckley Online - Community website with news coverage, searchable database of property for sale and to let, tourist information and business pages
Hinckleyweb - Contains a classifieds section for buying or selling items and recruitment pages for advertising and finding jobs.
Hinckley Amateur Radio and Electronics Society - News and information on this amateur radio club.
Hinckley Churches - Service times of many churches and what's happening in Hinckley and District.
Hinckley Gold - History and photos from the beginning of the 20th century, contains archives of interviews with local musicians and cooking recipes.
Hinckley & Bosworth On Line - Local web portal by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, covering aspects of life and work in this area.
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Hinckley Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe Hinckley Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Hinckley "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Hinckley I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Hinckley Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Hinckley The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Hinckley The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 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 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 Hinckley You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Hinckley Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Hinckley In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Hinckley The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Hinckley "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Hinckley "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Hinckley Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Hinckley An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth Hinckley The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Hinckley "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Hinckley The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Hinckley "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Hinckley My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Hinckley "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Hinckley
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