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Mansfield and District University of the Third Age - Provider of educational cultural and recreational opportunities for over-50s and seniors in west Nottinghamshire. Includes joining instructions, events diary and contact information.
Newgate Action Group - Formed to act as the community forum for the Newgate Lane Urban Renewal Scheme. Includes profile, meeting minutes, news archive, and information about the Community Point.
Nottinghamshire Bobbin Lace Society - Promotes Nottinghamshire's traditional lace-making trade and provides a contact network for local lacemakers.
Nottinghamshire Pioneers - Forum for young disabled people, includes previous events, photographs and contact information.
Jacksdale & Westwood Community and Heritage - A history of these villages, containing pictures and prose. Listing of war memorials with details and photos.
Bassetlaw Community and Voluntary Service - Local community development and networking agency. Activities, funding opportunities, groups and organisations.
The Animal Accident Rescue Unit - Charity which provides transport, aftercare and rehoming for sick and injured bird and animals, includes contact details, events and volunteer roles available.
Gedling Community - Information about this community.
tanc Community Regeneration Consultancy - Registered charity that provides an independent and free consultancy service to community groups.
Hetty's - Drug Support Network - Support network for parents, carers, family and friends of illicit drug users.
St Andrews Church, Langar - Information about the history, news, events and people of this parish.
St Francis Church - General information and photographs.
Focus Online for Underwood and Brinsley - Community website, includes an online version of local church magazine.
RNLI Nottinghamshire - News of the activities of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) branches and guilds in the county.
GMB Nottinghamshire General Branch - Includes a list of branch stewards and staff representatives, how to join the GMB union, diary of meetings and events, branch contacts and links to members benefits.
NHS Ecoschools - Nottingham High School EcoSchools project. Interactive site in a forum layout for user participation.
Catholic Parish of Our Lady of Grace and Saint Margaret Clitherow - Parish of two churches, situated in the villages of Cotgrave and Keyworth. Includes details of the parish team, diary and Mass times.
The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire - Historical and archaeological society. Founded in 1897 and named after Dr Robert Thoroton who, in 1677, published the first history of the county.
Old Nottinghamshire - Local and family history. Focus on towns in Ashfield area.
Pye Hill Trinity Methodist Church - Services, junior church, activities, events, links and location. [Located in Jacksdale]
Diocese of Southwell - The Anglican Church across Nottinghamshire and parts of South Yorkshire, includes online magazine, job vacancies, diary, links and bishop's "Ad Clerum" letters.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Society and Culture There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim "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 Society and Culture More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Society and Culture This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Society and Culture I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Society and Culture Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Society and Culture "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) 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 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Society and Culture The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Society and Culture "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Society and Culture "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
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