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Chris Clarke - Curriculum vitae and contact details for local county councillor.
St Cuthberts - Provides details of the church, events and people. Includes information about youth activities and the annual festival.
Wells Conservatives - News and events for the party, includes profiles of local representatives and contact details.
Wells Cathedral - Worship information, details of the history, events and education.
Wells at Work - Describes an exhibition at Wells Museum which focuses on business and industry that has thrived in city during the 20th Century.
The Wells Blue School Class of 1993 - A photograph of fourth year members of The Blue School.
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Society and Culture Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Society and Culture "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Society and Culture This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Society and Culture "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Society and Culture That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Society and Culture Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Society and Culture Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Society and Culture What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Society and Culture An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "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) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Society and Culture There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Society and Culture When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry 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 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture
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