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	Oxfordshire Computer Education Unit - Provides details on the Information and Communications Technology initiative in the county.
	European School Culham, Oxfordshire - A multilangual school for students from Europe or from families where two european languages are spoken. It provides nursery, primary and secondary education.
	Able Open Learning Centre - Part of the Oxfordshire County Council basic skills service.
	The Ace Centre Advisory Trust - An independent charity which assesses young people in education with spoken or written communication difficulties and advises on approaches to improving their communication skills.
	Oxfordshire Open College Network - Quality assurance, validation and accreditation services for organisations engaged in (and providing) learning and training programmes. Includes list of services offered and contact details.
	Easington Playgroup - A privately run playgroup and registered charity. Information includes curriculum, facilities and brochure.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Education Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Education Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Education If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Education Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Education "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Education To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Education To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Education Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Education I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show 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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman "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) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- 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 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Education The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Education Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Education The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Education Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) 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) Education Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Education Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Education Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Education 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 blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Education Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |