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Nexpress - Provides a range of services to computer manufacturers .
Shepshed Singers - Photos, news board and information on past and future concerts.
Shepshed Library - Local information about this service.
Hind Leys Community College - Comprehensive information on this college.
the Knowhere Guide - Informal information about this town, supplied by locals. With links to noticeboard facility.
Vantage Pharmacy - Community health services pharmacy, health checks and screening, news, links and healthcare advice.
Gunshop World - Provide a range of firearms. Photos, prices and contact details.
Shepshed Ford - Offer new and used vehicles. Photos, prices and details.
Shepshed Building Society - Details of services provided. Location map and contact by phone or online form. Local community page.
SIP - Manufacturing, production and marketing of transformer based welding and compressed air equipment. Product details and photos.
Croft Guest House - Family run guest house, Photographs, details and prices. [pets welcome]
Inca Hair Accessories - Importers of hair accessories and fashion jewellery. Suppliers to wholesalers across the UK.
Christchurch Theatre Club - Theatre group, performing popular stage musicals. Information on current and past shows and contact details.
Abbey Media Group - IT sourcing company, indication of services offered and contact details.
Oxley Primary School - Basic information about this school and contact details.
The Grange Courtyard - Guest house and bed and breakfast with executive apartments. Photographs, virtual tour, location map and tariff details
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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Shepshed 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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Shepshed 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 It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Shepshed Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Shepshed Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 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 The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Shepshed I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Shepshed Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Shepshed None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shepshed Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Shepshed "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Shepshed "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Shepshed "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Shepshed Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Shepshed The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf 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 . . . grand Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Shepshed Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Shepshed Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Shepshed He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Shepshed "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Shepshed That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Shepshed "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Shepshed That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Shepshed blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Shepshed
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