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Network Singles Group - Shropshire singles club. Not a dating or introduction agency, but does provide a relaxed environment for making friends and in many cases leads to marriage.
Hope House - Children's respite hospice in Oswestry serving Shropshire, Cheshire, Powys, Clwyd & Gwynedd.
SACCS Child Care Services - Social care, residential services, foster care, children's homes, therapy, assessment training, post qualifying training, therapeutic care, family placement, child protection, social work, child-centred, and emotional difficulties.
Corvedale Care - Young peoples' caring services. Looking after young people who have reached a crisis point in their lives, by offering a range of services to local authorities.
Shropshire Mines Trust - A charitable trust that preserves and interprets the remains of the Shropshire mining industry.
Grinshill Animal Rescue Centre - An independent centre totally supported through voluntary contributions. based in Grinshill, north Shropshire.
OLLIE - Community information service for the county. Contains a directory of links to business, councils, health, social services, and leisure.
Shropshire Family History Society - Membership subscription rates, events, records held, message board and members interests. Provides links to other genealogy related resources.
Shropshire and The Domesday Book - Infokey pages showing who held land and property at the time of the Domesday Book. Contains links to other sites relating to heraldry, surnames, coats of arms, and other counties Domesday information.
Salopian - Shropshire genealogy, local history, attractions, and maps.
Shropshire Astronomical Society - Details of events, meetings, membership, also images and links to other related resources.
130 Apprentice Entry RAF Cosford - Personal site for RAF Cosford 130 apprentices 1977-80. Includes reunion and contact information, news page, stories and a gallery.
Shropshire Roots - Includes interests submissions form, Shropshire parish resource locator, search facility, church and other photographs. Also offers a forum, news section and contact link.
Shropshire Record Series - The series publishes printed editions of historical documents concerning the county of Shropshire, England.
Attingham Park - A visual online history of the Attingham Park Adult College (1948-1973), led by Sir George Trevelyan. An experiment in socially-enriching adult education.
Darwin Country - Offers an educational resource. Contains places, people, plants, animals, and image gallery.
Shropshire Holstein Club - Details about the club and its meetings with programme and information about the various shows and competitions.
Shropshire Photographic Society - Details of the programme, competitions including the Shrewsbury Open Colour Slide Exhibition, and members pictures.
Taraloka, Bettisfield - Buddhist centre for women. Gives details of retreats, including some for women new to retreats. Holds open days for local people and visitors.
Shropshire Routes to Roots - Highlights aspects of Shropshire's history using archive and library sources and research from local historians.
Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "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) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Society and Culture We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Society and Culture English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Society and Culture A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Society and Culture More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Society and Culture In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Society and Culture Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer 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 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Society and Culture Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Society and Culture Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein 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 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Society and Culture There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Society and Culture Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Society and Culture Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Society and Culture
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