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Chris Mead - Personal page of a Cambridge University science student from West Somerset.
Baha'i Community - Outline of activities and contact details for local faith group.
Mia Evans - Photographs and guest book for the child of Nigel and Simone Evans born 12th March 2003.
Wilton and Sherford Community Association - Minutes of meetings, newsletter, current issues and pictures.
Taunton Women's Refuge - Safe haven for women with or without children who have suffered domestic violence. Includes details of services, support and advice.
Taunton Ladies Circle - Aims, membership information, past events and contacts for this friendship and fund-raising group.
Marilyn Baker Ministries - Christian singer/songwriter. Biography, news, diary, shop, sample songs, newsletter and prayer requests.
Catholic Church in Taunton - Taunton, Somerset. Mass times, contact details, Parish Centre details, newsletter, parish history, parish magazine.
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Society and Culture Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Society and Culture It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne 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. She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Society and Culture Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Society and Culture And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 Society and Culture "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Society and Culture Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Society and Culture Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik 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 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Society and Culture "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Society and Culture "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Society and Culture Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
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