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RIDE Resistance in Drug Education - RIDE is a series of drug awareness and life skills programmes currently devised for children aged from nine upwards.
Shoreditch College - A record of Shoreditch College which is now closed. Provides a meeting point for former students and staff.
Shere, Gomshall and Peaslake Local History Society - Researches the archaeological, sociological and family history of these villages in Surrey. Events, activities and publications.
Peter Hartt - Part-time Massage Therapist, and Aromatherapist.
Surrey Gateway - The overall access point for all information and contacts on all Voluntary Organisations in Surrey. A free discussion board is available for your comment and for providing information.
Select Singles - Surrey based Select Singles meets every week in Weybridge and Thames Ditton. Non members especially welcome. Come and meet other unattached professionals in a relaxed atmosphere.
East Clandon Village - A profile of the Surrey Village of East Clandon.
Peaslake On-Line - Village on-line. Access to Peaslake Village Stores, businesses and organisations. Online discussion group and online ordering.
Wonersh Village - Churches, clubs, societies and people of Wonersh.
Headley - A resource for residents, visitors.
Kiddikare - Babysitting service for Surrey. Sitters include nannies, nurses and teachers and they are all experienced with babies and children.
Molelife.com - Serving the communities of Dorking, Leatherhead, Ashtead and the Mole Valley area.
Newdigate - Information for residents and visitors to Newdigate, Surrey Village of the Year 2000.
HCPT Group One - A charity taking thousands of children to Lourdes every Easter. Story, history, photos, and events.
Radio Wey - Hospital radio station. Information about programmes, presenters and events.
Chiddingfold - Parish council site to promote local business, societies and clubs and to provide a focal point for events taking place in the village.
Molesey - Communinty site listing all the attractions and businesses.
Witley Parish Council - Local links, businesses, parish directory. All about the council and what it does. Find your councillor, find out about public meetings, events diary and photo gallery.
Mole Valley Volunteering - Promotes voluntary work in central Surrey. Profile, news, youth information and vacancies.
Surrey Drug Action Team - Information and advice for teenagers on drugs and substance abuse including classification of drugs and details of their characteristics.
One World Camp - Holistic health festival. Includes programmes, teachers, children, food, bookings, prices and venue.
Long Ditton Residents Association - Describes its objectives and activities with news and photo gallery.
Surrey County - Forum to discuss community affairs and includes upcoming events.
New Addington Online - A community site for the people of New Addington. Chat, post a pic, post a message.
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Society and Culture Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Society and Culture For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Society and Culture We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Society and Culture It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Society and Culture There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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 Nietzsche While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Society and Culture Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Society and Culture In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise 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 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Society and Culture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx "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 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Society and Culture Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Society and Culture
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