Corby Urban Regeneration - This site describes an effort to describe the life and concerns of the people of Corby at the start of the new century. This work will inform the Borough Council and its partners on the regeneration and redevelopment priorities for Corby.
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Corby Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Corby
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Corby There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Corby
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Corby Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Corby
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Corby It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Corby
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Corby "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Corby
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Corby In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Corby
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Corby Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Corby
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Corby "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Corby
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Corby Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Corby
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show 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 "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Corby When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Corby
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Corby Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Corby
