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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament West Midlands - Campaigning in central England and elsewhere for the abolition of weapons of mass destruction, and against militarism, with links to similar sites.
Marches Housing Association - Offers affordable housing in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire. Profile, information for tenants, FAQ and repair request.
Age Concern Herefordshire and Worcestershire - Provides information and advice, together with details of fund-raising and campaigns.
Rotary International District 1060 - Includes news, events and club directory.
Magical Midlands - Information on the folklore, customs, historical sites, and hauntings of the region.
West Midlands Life - Regional cultural consortium set up by the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport. Includes a list of board members, vision and strategy details, and cultural links.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright 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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Society and Culture By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Society and Culture You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Society and Culture The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Society and Culture May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Society and Culture A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture 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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Society and Culture Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Society and Culture Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Society and Culture "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth Society and Culture If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Society and Culture Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno Society and Culture If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Society and Culture "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Society and Culture "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Society and Culture Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
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