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Leicester Inter-Varsity Club - A social and multi-activity club for graduates, professionals and others with similar interests.
Age Concern Leicestershire and Rutland - Information on services provided and contact information.
Wartime Leicestershire, UK - Maps, photographs and articles about wartime (1939 to 1945) in the county, including before and after Blitz pictures.
Charnwood Forest Oil Action Group - Information about, and to oppose, the planning application to explore for oil in the heart of Charnwood Forest.
The King's Centre - A community centre for people in Wigston. Information on child care, youth work, counselling advice and community care.
Semper Eadem - Comprehensive history and information about Leicester and the county.
Amnesty International Leicester Local Group - Details of this group and the campaigns and events they organise in defence of human rights.
Leicestershire Scouts - Information on scouting in the county. On-line purchase of reduced price tickets to local and UK entertainment venues. Photos and news of events.
Leicestershire Primate Concern - Promotes the needs of african primate sanctuaries that care for orphaned apes and monkeys, victims of the bushmeat and pet trades.
Countesthorpe Gardens & Allotments Society - Pictures, allotment tips, history and news of a village allotment association 6 miles south of Leicester.
Leicestershire, Past and Present - Local history site which includes both conventional and paranormal research into the county's past.
Joseph Carey Merrick (Elephant Man) - Contains an extensive amount of information about this famous Leicester person.
Robert James Lees - History and research into the Leicestershire Victorian spiritualist.
Leicestershire and Rutland County Royal British Legion - Puts ex-servicemen, women and their families in touch with their local branch. On line forms for membership, list of county officers and committee members.
Leicester Pride - Details about the annual gay, lesbian and bisexual parade and festival.
Netmums - Information for mums with young children in North West Leicestershire, notice board, what's on, competitions, schools information and advice. Membership required to enter site.
Leicestershire Group of the RSA - Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, manufactures and commerce. Comprehensive information and links to similar sites.
Rural Community Council - A charity providing information, advice and assistance to groups and individuals in rural Leicestershire and Rutland on economic, social, environmental and planning matters.
Winno-Bosy - Reunion group for ex-pupils of Winstanley Community College, Braunstone and Bosworth College, Desford.
The Committee For The Paddock - Group working to protect an area of wild countryside known as The Paddock from becoming swallowed up by development. Information about the area, and the funding needed to purchase and conserve it.
Hinkley Scout Group - Comprehensive information and photographs about this group.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society and Culture "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "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 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Society and Culture "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Society and Culture Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres "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, Alice in Wonderland Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Society and Culture "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Society and Culture Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Society and Culture A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Society and Culture "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Society and Culture What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Society and Culture A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Society and Culture More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Society and Culture Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words >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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture 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 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker "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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture
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