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Bilbrook Community Website - Includes a history, details of facilities, organisations and notices. Also has forum and picture galleries.
Bilbrook Medical Centre - Includes location and contact details, information on doctors and advice for patients.
Bilbrook Middle School - Includes photo tour, gallery of staff, mission, approach, targets, and general information.
Lane Green First School - Includes details of classes, events and clubs, as well as general information and contact details.
Bilbrook Juniors Football Club - Under 7s to Under 17s football club. Includes fixture list, training details, match reports, contact information and merchandise.
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I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Bilbrook "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Bilbrook The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Bilbrook Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Bilbrook A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Bilbrook The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Bilbrook "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. 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(Edger Allen Poe) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Bilbrook Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Bilbrook "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Bilbrook I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Bilbrook Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Bilbrook "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Bilbrook blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." 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