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South Yorks Towns and Villages - A photo tour and potted history of 18 South Yorkshire villages and towns: Aston cum Aughton, Dinnington, Harthill, Kiveton, South and North Anston, and surrounding areas. 250 photos, local life and history.
NOMAD homeless advice and support unit - An independent organisation which offers advice, support and practical help to homeless or inadequately housed people, or those in housing need.
Dearne Valley Churches and Landmarks - A guide by Martyn Gleaden to the monuments, churches and chapels of the area between Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham. Clear photographs and potted histories.
Victim Support - Provides advice about where to get help, compensation, services and how to become volunteer.
Safe In South Yorkshire - Exchanging ideas, projects and best practice in a bid to raising confidence and encouraging the reporting of Homophobic, Transphobic incidents against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered community of South Yorkshire. Online reporting, anyonymously if required, news and contacts.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Society and Culture Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Society and Culture The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Society and Culture Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Society and Culture Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture "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) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Society and Culture Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Society and Culture Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of 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 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Society and Culture Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Society and Culture Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Society and Culture In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
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