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St Nicolas Church - Church of England parish church. The site includes up-to-date information about the Church's services and other activities.

Cranleigh Lions Club - Information about the fund raising activities of their Lions Club and the ways in which they serve their local community.

David Shepherd Conservation Foundation - A group concerned with the survival of tigers, elephants, rhinos and other endangered mammals

The Cranleigh Railway Line - Information on the railway line that ran between Guildford and Horsham, through Surrey and West Sussex, from 1865 to 1965.

Cranleigh Baptist Church - Describes the church, its staff and its constitution with location, activities and membership information.

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Society and Culture I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Society and Culture "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Society and Culture "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Society and Culture 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 If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Society and Culture They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Society and Culture "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Society and Culture You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Society and Culture "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Society and Culture "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green 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 "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 Society and Culture Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture 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 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Society and Culture I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Society and Culture
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