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New Writing North - Diaries, guides to writing, projects, FAQs and contacts.
Legion Lodge of Freemasons - History, consecration, link to Lodge of Loyalty, news, remembrance and photographs.
Gosforth Garden Village Association - Provides local news and details of community activities and meetings with dates and contact information.
Safe Haven Cat Refuge - A voluntary organisation which rescues and rehomes stray, abused and abandoned cats. Pictures of cats for adoption and information on the feral cat program as well as general information and contact details.
Newcastle TV and Friends - Social and support site for transgendered people. Includes message board, details of meetings, photo gallery and events listing, as well as help pages.
Jesmond Life - Local directory including arts, business, education, health and leisure.
Newcastle Chinatown - Information on the history, astrology, mythology relating to Chinese Festivals and events taking place in the area. Also links to local Chinese businesses.
Newcastle Citizens Advice Bureau - Offers advice on benefits, employment, housing, legal, relationship, tax and education.
Newcastle and District British Computer Society - Providing service and support to the information systems community. Membership information, news and events.
Newcastle upon Tyne Liberal Democrats - The only opposition on the Labour-controlled council. Site has ward and city news and contacts.
Globesociety - The University of Northumbria's gay, lesbian and bisexual group. Features details of meeting times, events and contact details.
Parent Partnership Newcastle - Provides support for families of children with special educational needs. Details on support, advice, the law and independent parental support.
Red House Farm Estate - A collection of old photographs taken in the late sixties of a house being built on a popular estate in Gosforth.
Newcastle Young Labour - Youth section of the Labour Party in the city. News events and local MP details.
Newcastle Club - Offering message board, chat room and a links page.
Newcastle Lesbian Line - Offers advice and support for lesbians or woman who are questioning their sexuality by phone or by email. Details of opening hours, meetings, volunteering and related links.
Jesmond - a Suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne - The Jesmond Network provides information on the neighbourhood and aims to stop the further development of bars in the area. Details of the area's history, local amenities and campaign information.
Newcastle Disability Forum - Information and services for those who have physical and sensory disability.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Society and Culture Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Society and Culture My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Society and Culture The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Society and Culture Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana 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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Society and Culture "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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) A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt "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 The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Society and Culture Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Society and Culture I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Society and Culture The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain 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 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Society and Culture Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture
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