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Leek Festival - Arts Festival held throughout May in Leek.
Leek Staffordshire - Information and local web cam.
Centre Stage Theatre Company - An amateur dramatic group formed in 1998, based in Leek, Staffordshire.
Fort Stanley Country Music Club - Offers live bands, camping facilities, and line dancing tuition. Contains an overview of the club, prices, and booking information.
Rudyard Lake Steam Railway - Located in Rudyard near Leek. Contains details of events, location, fares, timetable, and contact information.
Saint Mary's Catholic Church - Contact information, schedule of services, parish history, organisations, picture gallery. Has a parochial primary school for ages 3-11 years.
Team Parish of Leek and Meerbrook - The leadership, ministry and location of the churches of St Edward, All Saints, St Luke, St Paul, St John and St Matthew, plus guide to a church wedding and information about linked schools.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Leek You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Leek "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Leek Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "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) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Leek I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Leek Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Leek Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Leek 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 Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Leek Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Leek Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Leek "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright Leek Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Leek Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Leek Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Leek I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Leek I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Leek You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Leek The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Leek "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Leek "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Leek We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Leek "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 Marriage is a rest period between romances. Leek
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