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North Eastern Bridge Association - The official site for duplicate bridge including club results, news, leagues, contacts, pictures, teaching and a calendar.

North East Koi Club - Information about the club and its history with facilities, events and advice.

Northern Navigators Orienteering Club - Draws members from Northumberland, Durham and Tyne and Wear. Details of events, results, publications, club history and official contacts.

North East Sport - Government funded sports co-ordinating body for the region. News, strategy documents, organisational mission and directory of organisations.

UltraVenture - Organisers of paint balling, quad biking, tank driving, off road go karting and clay pigeon shooting. Details of events, special parties and team building. Office in Sunderland and events in Kielder Forest.

North East Cricket - For all levels of cricket in the region. Details of leagues, fixtures, tables, chat and links to clubs.

Fish-the-NE.com - Devoted to fishing in the region. Details of clubs, disabled angling and links to other resources.

Northumbria Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club - Information on launch sites, members, flying stories and news.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Recreation and Sports We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Recreation and Sports 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. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Recreation and Sports "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Recreation and Sports "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Recreation and Sports Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Recreation and Sports "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein 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 Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Recreation and Sports No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Recreation and Sports Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Recreation and Sports America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Recreation and Sports "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Recreation and Sports "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Recreation and Sports "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Recreation and Sports "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Recreation and Sports One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports 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 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Recreation and Sports
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