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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Telford Ward of the Newcastle Under-Lyme Stake. Ward news, fact sheet about Church beliefs, quotations and readings, links.
Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Parish - Includes mass times, meeting locations, and fundraising needs for a new building.
Rich's bit of cyberspace - Personal page. Contains a guest book, webcam and details on how to set one up.
Telford Buddhist Priory - Priory following the Serene Reflection (Soto Zen) tradition of Buddhism. Events, gallery and directions.
Wellington Methodist Church - Offers services, activities, mission statement, letter, beliefs, proposed new building, music, devotional material, humour, contact, location and links.
Wrockwardine Village Shropshire - Shropshire Village Website providing news, entertainment and local history.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Society and Culture ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck "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) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr Society and Culture "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 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Society and Culture Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Society and Culture "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Society and Culture The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Society and Culture "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Society and Culture Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Society and Culture How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Society and Culture Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Society and Culture I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture "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) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Society and Culture "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Society and Culture 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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law 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
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