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Society and Culture Links

	Vale Residents Group - Discussion and notice board for residents of The Vale.
	Portishead Horticultural Society - Event details for long established horticultural society. With seasonal gardening tips in the Garden Shed section.
	Portishead Quakers - Location and history of Portishead Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
	Portishead Youth Club - Youth activities including social, sports and media. Programme details for occasional local radio station Dynamic FM.
	The Gordano Society - Group of people with an interest in history, conservation and environment in the Gordano Valley. Lists programme of events and contacts.
	The Portbury Hundred - History of the old Portbury Hundred with details of churches, families, schools and maritime connections.
	The Hockins' Home Page - History of the Hockin family from their Cornish roots. Includes personal pages of Jean and David Hockin and links to other Hockins.
	Saint Peter's and Saint Nicholas Parish - Includes a welcome to visitors, parish history, news and events, details of people, groups and meetings. Information about worship services, upcoming weddings and baptisms, fund raising information and related links.
	Portishead Methodist Church - Services, activities, mission statement, location, minister, contact and links. Part of the Gordano Valley circuit.
	The Story of Portishead Radio - History of the long range maritime communications service from 1920 to 1995.
	Lions Club of Portishead - Local district of international charitable fund-raisers supporting many local and national causes. Summary of their activities and contact information.
	Portishead United Reformed Church - Location, contacts, service times, links with other churches.
	The Portishead Campaign - Describes residents concerns about the location of a Home Office Screening Unit for asylum seekers in the town. Contains background, details of local councillors and their views.
	Councillor Nick Brown's Local Action - Offers advice for activists and protestors based on the author's experience as a town councillor. Covers lobbying and using the press and cites local examples.
	Gordano Valley Church - Community-based church serving this part of North Somerset. Provides information about its activities, programme and history.

Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Society and Culture We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Society and Culture Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Society and Culture Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Society and Culture I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison 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 "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Society and Culture "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) 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 Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "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 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- Fran�ois de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Society and Culture I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Society and Culture "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Society and Culture "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Society and Culture Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Society and Culture "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Society and Culture There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Society and Culture I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Society and Culture To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." 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