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	Oxford Vegetarians Voluntary Group - Activities include talks, cookery demonstrations, informal social meetings, video evenings, restaurant trips and even aromatherapy and massage evenings.
	Stop the Quarry - Details of an unsuccessful protest against Railtrack's quarry in Oxford.
	Oxford Civic Society - This website includes all Oxford planning applications, the Civic Society's programme of events, and information on Oxford's blue plaques scheme.
	The Oxford Trust Home Page - Encouraging the study and application of science and technology. Includes current programmes, news and contact details.
	Demox - Details of the Campaign for a Democratically Elected Mayor for Oxford.
	The Gatehouse - A drop-in centre for the city's homeless and poorly housed population.
	The Oxford Night Shelter - Direct access accommodation for men and women over 25 open every night of the year.
	International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications - Co-operative network of partners aiming to improve world-wide access to information.
	QueerOxford - Information on the Oxford gay scene for both sexes. Calendar, venue guide, events and information about gay groups.
	Oxford 2600 - Group who hold meetings on topics such as computer security and hardware, phreaking, and virii. Includes meeting information, photographs, and links.
	ACE Centre Advisory Trust - Assessment, advice and training in the use of technology for young people with physical and communication difficulties. Information on assessments, software, training and publications.
	Blackbird Leys Independent Working Class Association - Describes the organisation and its activities with news and events.
	All Saints Church Wytham - A small village church using the Book of Common Prayer for most services. A friendly atmosphere, parking close by and chid friendly. Visitors or regular worshipers are always welcome.

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Society and Culture Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Society and Culture I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Society and Culture The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) 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 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Society and Culture "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos 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" I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant Society and Culture Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Society and Culture Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- Andr� Maurois Society and Culture Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die 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 Society and Culture The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Society and Culture Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Society and Culture May you never leave your marriage alive. In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Society and Culture Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Society and Culture Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Society and Culture 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 |