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RAISE: Regional Action and Involvement South East - The representative body for voluntary and community organisations, aiding member networking as well as linking the voluntary and community sector with SEEDA, SEERA, GOSE and other regionally-based organisations. News, publications and links.
Thames Valley Family Mediation Service - Helps divorcing couples with advice, counselling, separation and legal assistance. Profile, services, locations and testimonials.
Sussex Singles - Dating service for single people in East and West Sussex. Requires registration to access search, chat rooms and articles.
Mystic Links - Information on psychic fairs organised by this company throughout the South East. With reader details and related links.
Soroptimist International South East England - A worldwide organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Regional programme and project information. Online club officers list and contact information.
Soroptimist International Thames Valley - Local branch of this organisation for women in management and professions. Includes club meeting information, links to Soroptimist programme statements and the source of The Soroptimist Rose.
Parents and Children Together (PACT) - Offers support services to people living in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Site offers resources and articles for all members of the adoption triad.
Lions Club District 105SE - Includes club directory, officer contacts, classifieds, discussion and details of current projects.
Gingerbread South East Region - Information on the organisation for lone parent families.
Rotary International District 1120 - Lists the clubs in the region with meeting times, events and news.
Hatton Hill Day Nursery - Nurseries based in Farnborough, Hampshire as well as Windelsham, Frimley Green and Esher, Surrey. Location details, services provided and contact form.
Sussex Ambulance Service Unison - Union branch. Profile, services, news, and health and safety information.
Parents and Children Together (PACT) - Exists to ensure that the children and families within Diocese of Oxford have a highly professional adoption and family support agency based on the Christian values. Information on the charity and its services.
Mate or Date - Speed and silent dating events for professional singletons. Events in London and the South East.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Society and Culture Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Society and Culture "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Society and Culture Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Society and Culture Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Society and Culture The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi Society and Culture Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Society and Culture Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Society and Culture Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Society and Culture What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Society and Culture Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Society and Culture In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
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