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Church of Scientology of Manchester - Includes news, information and contact details.
Manchester Reform Synagogue - History and activities of reform Judaism in Manchester. Hebrew and transliterated extracts for service together with mp3 downloadable audio.
HCPT Manchester Region - Organises pilgrimages to Lourdes for young people with special needs (physical, learning, emotional and social). Includes photographs and a response form.
The Diocese of Manchester - Presents the work of the Church of England. Lists the Bishops and senior clergy and Diocesan officers.
Manchester Jewish Community Care - Organization provides support for those with disabilities. Find out how to help, or view the gallery of pictures by the charity's members.
The Baha'i Faith in Manchester - Community events and contact details for the Baha'i Community including some history of the Faith, and links.
Manchester Vineyard - Christian church. Describes its beliefs and activities with information about training and service times.
Old Catholic Ministry - Educates candidates for the Old Catholic priesthood. Offers incardination to former Roman Catholic or Anglican priests.
Bolton and Rochdale Methodist District - Offers a map of the area covered by this organisation of circuits in the Methodist Church of Great Britain. Chair of District, mission statement, training officer, news, notices and articles.
Manchester University Buddhist Society - Weekly meditation classes. Includes details of the society, discussion forum, events and links to local organisations.
Manchester Buddhist Centre - Offers classes in meditation, Buddhism, yoga, as well as art events and retreats. Located in Manchester's Northern Quarter in the heart of the city.
Farnworth and Worsley Methodist Circuit - Details of the nine Churches which make up the circuit also plan, staff, thoughts and diary.
Manchester Student Christian Society - An ecumenical student Christian group meeting at St Peter's House. Programme, introduction, photos, location, contact and links.
Faizan e Islam - Islamic Centre and bookshop. Contains information about Islam, information about their activities, news and a forum.
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Religion The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Religion They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Religion Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Religion There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Religion It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Religion Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Religion I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Religion [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Religion "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Religion Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Religion 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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Religion Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Religion "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Religion How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Religion The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Religion I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Religion "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Religion Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Religion My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Religion Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Religion "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Religion
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