The Early Break Drugs Project - The Early Break Drugs Project is a counselling, support, and information service for young people aged 18 and under who are around drug and alcohol use.
Prestwich Heritage Society - Preserves the local history, architecture, and culture of the Borough of Prestwich. Includes photo gallery, timeline, and events.
Prestwich Guide - Contains information about the community and history of Prestwich, Bury and North Manchester.
Bury Employment Support and Training - A recruitment service for residents with mental health needs or a learning disability. Includes client and employer information.
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Society and Culture
"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) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Society and Culture
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." 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
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Society and Culture Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 Society and Culture The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Society and Culture
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history May you never leave your marriage alive. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Society and Culture We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Society and Culture He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture
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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Society and Culture
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society and Culture Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig 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 Society and Culture
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes My other wife is beautiful. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Society and Culture A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Society and Culture
