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UHHS Stuff - Upper Heyford High School alumni site. Contains photos, reunion information, links and guestbook.
CPRE Oxfordshire - A branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) which helps people protect their local countryside and rural communities. Includes news, membership information, location map and contact information.
Oxford West and Abingdon Liberal Democrats - News, contacts and photos from the LibDems in the two constituencies.
Oxon Linux User Group - Oxfordshire Linux User's Group. Includes group description, events, F.A.Q., members and contact information.
Family Nurturing Network - Oxfordshire based Charity who help to improve family relationships and help children succeed in life.
Oxfordshire Guiding Association - Information on events and training, the guiding diary and general background on the association.
Spired.com - Portal for young people provided by the County Council's youth service. Includes a general guide to everyday life, latest news, what's on and game zone.
BCS Oxon - Oxfordshire branch of the British Computer Society, the chartered professional institution for information systems engineering. Details of meetings, past events and committee members.
Oxfordshire Crop Circles - Details of crop circles discovered in Oxfordshire from 1994 onwards. Includes photo documentation.
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 Society and Culture "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Society and Culture Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Society and Culture The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Society and Culture 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Society and Culture He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Society and Culture Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Society and Culture There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber Society and Culture It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Society and Culture "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Society and Culture Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Society and Culture Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Society and Culture "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Society and Culture What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Society and Culture A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Society and Culture To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Society and Culture "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey 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 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Society and Culture Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Society and Culture "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
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