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Blue Cross - An animal welfare charity. Includes aims, donations and contact information.
Burford Needlecraft - Needlecraft shop in Burford. Includes opening times and details of selected products.
Alvescot Village - Village in the OX18 region in the west of the county. Includes information about village history, photos, rambling in the area, the village council, photos and a virtual tour of the village.
Burford Golf Club - Includes contact information, directions, amenities, key bye-laws, club history, weather and profile.
Gateway Antiques - Antique shop and gallery featuring 17th to 20th century furniture. Includes partial catalogue, events and location map.
Burford Garden Company - A 'Garden Department Store' has garden furniture to buy online, plus monthly tips, things to do, and information on what's available at the offline site.
Energy Public Relations - A public relations agency offering results-orientated business-to-business and consumer PR services.
Burford School, Oxfordshire - Burford School provides education for over 1100 girls and boys, including a large Sixth Form of more than 200 students.
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Burford Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Burford The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burford Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Burford 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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Burford Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Burford "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Burford There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Burford The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Burford Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Burford Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) 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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Burford "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Burford I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Burford "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Burford "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln 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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Burford Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Burford The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Burford We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Burford Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Burford In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Burford I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Burford 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 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Burford
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