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Loughborough Community Internet Project - Community and commercial information.

Charnwood Borough Council - Provides details of services, the local economy and business opportunities as well as arts, tourism and leisure.

Great Central Railway - Main line steam train. Runs most weekends and some weekdays throughout the year. Includes diary of forthcoming events and timetable.

Lions Club - District 105E site. Details of events, history, photo album and contact information.

Charnwood Online - Information on the Loughborough Partnership. Links to Town Trail, Town Hall and local history.

Minceweb - Personal views on some cafes in town.

Local History - Details of lace making, knitting, local museums, chamber of commerce information.

Loughborough Library - Information on services, opening times. Direct links to Leicester and Nottingham libraries.

Loughborough Pubs - Photos and reviews of local drinking outlets.

Going Loco - An extensive personal collection of photos and memories of the Great Central Railway.

Police - Leicestershire Police information of crime in local area.

Recycle-more - Tells where the nearest recycling facility is and gives recycling information for business, schools and consumers. Location maps.

Local Transport Connections - Loughborough bus, coach and train service information.

Glebe House - Information about adults with Learning Disabilities (IRALD). Local residential and day centre program for LD adults.

Loughborough Endowed Schools - Comprehensive information about this group, comprising of Fairfield, Loughborough Grammar and Loughborough High schools.

Loughborough Pubs and Information - A list of local pubs with photos and reviews. Features some cafe reviews, with links to local landmarks and the military.

Loughborough Pubs - A guide to local pubs.

Loughborough pubs - Photos of public houses in the local area. Gallery of internal events in several pubs.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Loughborough You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Loughborough Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Loughborough Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Loughborough "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) 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 Loughborough "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Loughborough Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Loughborough When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Loughborough A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Loughborough Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Loughborough Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Loughborough "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Loughborough Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Loughborough "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Loughborough Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Loughborough Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "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) Loughborough When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein "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) 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 Loughborough blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Loughborough "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Loughborough The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Loughborough The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld Loughborough Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Loughborough
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