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Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality - Working towards the elimination of racial discrimination.
Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers Club - A group for people who want to improve their speaking skills, whether it's for business, leisure or social occasions. Members come from all backgrounds, and are aged 18 years old and over.
Suffolk Gay and Lesbian Helpline - The Suffolk Gay and Lesbian Helpline has been set up to listen and assist.
RAF Bentwaters, RAF Woodbridge and Tansey Family - Register of Airmen, Civilians, Brats, and relatives stationed in the 'Twin Bases' from 1950's to 1990's. Also includes information on the Tansey family, and links to many other varied sites.
Ipswich Liberal Democrats - News, campaigns, petitions and a manifesto for Ipswich from the local Liberal Democrats.
Lions Club of Ipswich - A club dedicated to helping the community of Ipswich.
Accent Dining Club - Dining club for singles aged 40 to 60.
History of Medieval Ipswich - Site detailing the origin and growth of Ipswich in Medieval times.
Old Stoke News - Online version of bimonthly community news sheet.
Allotment Forestry - A community project working with gardeners to increase the use of local woodland products in the garden and allotment. Ideas and pictures.
Essex and Suffolk Border Motorcycle Club - A motorcycle club for all motorcyclists but mainly aimed at the off road trials section of the sports. Includes coming events, club membership, photo gallery and contact details.
7 Hills - Online chat room. Members have to be no more than a 30 minute drive from the Seven hills interchange.
Ipswich Suffolk, Cemetery Road - 1960's and 1940 listings of persons living at Cemetery Rd and neighbouring streets.
Select Speed Dating - Regular speed dating events in the centre of town.
Triangle (Ipswich) Motorcycle Club - Profile, what's on, information about types of events, classfied ads, and gallery.
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Society and Culture blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Society and Culture I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Society and Culture Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Society and Culture That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Society and Culture Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Society and Culture We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Society and Culture "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Society and Culture You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Society and Culture "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Society and Culture I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) 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 have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Society and Culture It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Society and Culture Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Society and Culture Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Society and Culture Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Society and Culture Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Society and Culture
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