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Awdry Family - Family information and history.
Maurice Chittocks Home Page - CV and disseration "Doing business on the internet"
Greg Stragnells Home Page - Photos of activities undertaken by Greg et al
Paul Connolly's Home Page - Music snippets created by Paul
K. Lawson Photography - Collection of photographs from personal work.
Mark Eliot - Personal information and interested described in a style imitative of comedian Ali G.
Tony Attwood - News and a list of works by the educationalist and science fiction author.
Russell Brown - Personal information and interests.
The Beeby family of Kettering - Information on the town of Kettering, photos of how the town was, compared to how it is now, details of Wicksteed Park and information on the Beeby family.
John W. Johnston - A collection of things that interest him including his watercolours, a moving story, a poem, some humour, the Union Jack and Scottish Ancestry - and a technical issue answered.
Terry Hawke - Freelance music journalist, webpage editor and science fiction aficiando. Includes brief biography, quizzes, blogs and links.
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(Benjamin Franklin) Personal Pages Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Personal Pages Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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(Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Personal Pages Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Personal Pages To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Personal Pages Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Personal Pages "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Personal Pages "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Personal Pages Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Personal Pages "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Personal Pages Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Personal Pages "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Personal Pages If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Personal Pages Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Personal Pages
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