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The Community Council of Staffordshire - Aims to protect and improve the quality of life for all those living and working in the communities of Staffordshire. Contains details of the work undertaken by the organisation, forums, and news.
Action Network - North Staffs - Network for local campaign and action groups who are working towards social and/or ecological change. Contains details of current campaigns and events.
Adbaston Women's Institute - Offers a list of forthcoming events, picture gallery, and press reports.
The Staffordshire Society - Promotes the heritage and awareness of the county. Includes history, purpose, news, and events.
Staffordshire Ancestry Research Services - Genealogy and family history archive services searched by experienced researcher. Also includes location photography FAQs, how to pay, and a consultation planning service.
Archive Services - Staffordshire Record Office - Contains details of the many documents held relating to the county, which are available to local and family history researchers. Online catalogue, opening hours, with links to other archive offices in the county.
East Staffordshire Neighbourhood Watch Association - Contains an overview of the association, photographs of members, and newsletter.
Staffordshire Industrial Archaeology Society - Includes news, project details, diary and journal, and contact information.
Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust Ltd - Contains membership details, and application form. Also includes an events diary, project information, and pictures.
Staffordshire History - Insight into local history and includes overview of local villages. Offers list of resources.
RSPCA North Staffordshire - Offers pet rehousing and a shop. Appeal for volunteers, information on the rehousing process and pictures of pets for adoption. Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
Bagnall History - Contains the history of the surname and place-name of Bagnall. Includes origins, derivatives, and heraldry information.
Adbaston 1851-1940 - Offers history of Adbaston village.
Ball - Researching the name of Ball,(Balle, Baule, Baall and Baull) mainly from the North Staffordshire area of Mow Cop and surrounds.
Betley Local History Society - Small society, set up to study and record all the history of this village, both in a written and photographic form.
Staffordshire Parish Registers Society - Includes information about the society, its objectives and publications, and membership form.
Staffordshire Past Track - An extensive archive of images, documents, audio and video content relating to the heritage, community history and culture of Staffordshire.
North Staffordshire Housing Alliance - A collection of organisations providing housing, health and welfare advice for the over 50s, their families and carers.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Society and Culture I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain "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) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Society and Culture Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Society and Culture I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana "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 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Society and Culture There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Society and Culture "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus "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) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Society and Culture A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Society and Culture If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Society and Culture
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