Shrewsbury - My home town - Small site which concerns the history of Shrewsbury and the reasons behind its existence.
Porth y waen Archaeological Study Centre - Offers a range of non-residential short holiday archaeology courses: details of courses, reports and location details
Battle of Shrewsbury - 600th anniversary events listing and information about the battle fought in 1403.
Shrewsbury Dial -a- Ride - The wheelchair accessible friendly transport service for people unable to use ordinary public transport
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-- George Bernard Shaw This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Anonymous I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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-- Douglas Adams Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
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-- Helen Roland Society and Culture "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan Society and Culture The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- William Wordsworth Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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-- Anonymous Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
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-- Anon Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- Mae West Society and Culture What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
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It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
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"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Society and Culture If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Society and Culture
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison 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 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
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- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
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