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Birkenhead - Victorian Boom Town - Town history, covering the park, Lord Lever's soap manufacturing business, and ship building.
Christ Church Birkenhead - Contains details of the activities and aims of this Anglican church along with some local history articles.
The Hamilton Quarter - Organisation aiming to regenerate Birkenhead. Information about their strategy, funding, artistic and cultural activities, environmental improvements, housing schemes, promotion of business and tourism, building conservation and renovation, and crime prevention. Plus local links.
Narrowgate Puppet Ministries - Preaching the Christian message through puppets. Includes information about puppet sales.
Beechwood Community Trust - Works to improve employment prospects and provide greater resources for the people of Beechwood. Information about training, achievements, and the community association.
Tranmere Community Project - Organised by the Tranmere Methodist Church. Information about projects including the Drama Works youth theatre company, adult education, child care, youth work, and benefit advice, plus church service times.
The Rotary Club of Birkenhead - Charity doing voluntary work for the local community. Information about meetings, talks and social events.
Sure Start Birkenhead Central - Local government-funded project helping children under four and their families. Includes a calendar of activities, newsletters, and links.
Oxton Village - Information about the village and the Oxton Society, concerned with local conservation. Includes businesses, churches, news, photos, and a community forum.
The Oxton Society - Set up to help administer conservation and preservation interests in the Oxton Conservation Area. Includes news, and information about activities.
Charing Cross Methodist Church and Neighbourhood Centre - Offers services, activities, staff team, newsletter, youth club, location and local area information.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Society and Culture If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Society and Culture A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Society and Culture The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Society and Culture The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Society and Culture The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 of You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Society and Culture A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic 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 Society and Culture "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Society and Culture What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Society and Culture Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf "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) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill 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 Society and Culture Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Society and Culture "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Society and Culture The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Society and Culture If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Society and Culture
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