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Park Road Baptist Church - Mission statement, services, congregation, activities and location.
RACY - Rushden Area Christian Youth - Seeks to organise events for young people that would be beyond the means of a single church. Welcome, diary, news, message board and churches.
Rushden Mission Church - Wesleyan Reform Union. Statement of faith, weekly schedule, what's on, and photo gallery.
St Mary's Rushden - Anglican church presents services, directions, Alpha, diary, team, contacts and links to other local Christian groups.
The Wesleyan Independent Church - Offers service times, activities, youth events, contact and links.
Whitefriars Church, Rushden - Activities and aims of this Anglican parish church, also leadership, prayer requests, contact details and youth pages.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Society and Culture "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Society and Culture A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Society and Culture Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Society and Culture Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm 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 Society and Culture The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James 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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Society and Culture You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture 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 Uncl "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Society and Culture May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Society and Culture Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Society and Culture The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture "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) Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) 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 Society and Culture "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Society and Culture
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