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Parbold Village - Provides newsletter, lists shops, doctors surgery, history and clubs.
Wigan Borough Partnership - A simple guide to services available to residents and businesses.
Ex lowton highers - A site for all ex lowton high students, contains pupil and school memories and it's totally free.
Wigan Dialect - A Collection of Lancashire dialect Poetry from the Wigan area. Includes an index of poems.
Shevington Vale - Community website for Appley Bridge, Shevington and surrounding areas.
Wigan World - Old and new photos of the area. Over 4,000 pics. Contains photographs present and past and forums.
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Society and Culture That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Society and Culture Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Society and Culture Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Society and Culture Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Society and Culture If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein "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 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Society and Culture "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Society and Culture If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Society and Culture And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Society and Culture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Society and Culture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "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 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Society and Culture Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Society and Culture I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Society and Culture Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. 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