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The Church of God in Stoke-on-Trent - Includes beliefs, service times, groups, and events.
St Saviours - Church of England parish church serving the communities of Smallthorne and Bradley, affiliated with Forward in Faith. Includes information about services, summer fayre, and registers.
Penkhull Christian Fellowship - Includes diary and information about groups and ministries.
Swan Bank Methodist Church - Includes heritage, services, activities, courses, and ministry team.
Staffs Agility School - Dog agility training. Includes general agility information, club information and pictures of dogs in action.
Middleport - Community site including events, maps, photo gallery, travel directions, community contacts, and local web-links.
Friends of Berryhill Fields - Community website including local tour, events and information on recent archaeological dig.
BBC - Stoke and Staffordshire - Regional site including local history, legends, news, travel, sport and voting poll for Staffordshire greats.
The Bentilean Online - Community website for Bentilee, Berryhill, Eaton Park, and Moss Green. Includes shop opening times, newsletter, and summer fete details.
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour - Includes Mass times, contact details, newsletters in PDF format, directions.
Ball Green Methodist Church - Sundays, weekly programme, features, minister, events, groups, fund raising, mission statement, location and contact. In the Burslem circuit.
Charles Allerton & Sons - Personal site of ceramic manufacturers containing family and business history, examples of items produced, family tree and details of small number of items for sale by auction.
Disability Solutions - Providing information for disabled people on subjects such as benefits, rights, housing, and welfare. Serves North Staffordshire.
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Society and Culture Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Society and Culture "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Society and Culture Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Society and Culture Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. 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 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Society and Culture If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Society and Culture Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Society and Culture "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Society and Culture Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Society and Culture "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Society and Culture A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Society and Culture "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Society and Culture "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller 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 Society and Culture Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Society and Culture I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Society and Culture Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Society and Culture A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen "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) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Society and Culture
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