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Stoke-on-Trent City Council - Contains information primarily for city residents: Includes details on finance, education, leisure and services.
Stoke-on-Trent Links - Offers a local directory.
Spratslade House Residential Care - A quality residential care home for the elderly in Dresden, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.
Stoke-on-Trent - Listed Buildings - Photographs, history and descriptions of the listed buildings of the North Staffordshire Potteries.
Historical Walks - "Walking" tours of the area which provide a sociological history. Photographs, maps, census returns and contact information provided.
Maps of Stoke-on-Trent - Maps of the North Staffordshire Potteries, from the 1600s to the present day.
AccuWeather.com - Stoke-on-Trent - Contains a 5-day weather forecast, maps, radar and satellite images for Stoke-on-Trent.
Stoke-on-Trent - Features history, photographs and maps of Stoke-on-Trent, Tunstall, Burslem, and Hanley. Also includes facts and information about the pottery produced within the City.
Bradeley Village Online - Official site of this social housing retirement complex for active older people. Includes history, news and application details.
Knowhere Guide - Local information supplied by locals. Includes links to messageboard, map, shops, pubs, services.
Birds and Lard - Promotes the Stoke and surrounding area's alternative music scene.
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(Japanese Proverb) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Stoke-on-Trent 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 "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Stoke-on-Trent Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Stoke-on-Trent The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Stoke-on-Trent [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud 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 I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Stoke-on-Trent 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Stoke-on-Trent "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Stoke-on-Trent It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Stoke-on-Trent I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Stoke-on-Trent 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Stoke-on-Trent When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Stoke-on-Trent We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Stoke-on-Trent "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. 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 Stoke-on-Trent Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "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) Stoke-on-Trent Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Stoke-on-Trent Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Stoke-on-Trent "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Stoke-on-Trent Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Stoke-on-Trent "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Stoke-on-Trent The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Stoke-on-Trent
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