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Baptist Tabernacle - Information on Sunday services, special events, news and history of the church.
Aspects of South Shields - History of the town, its landmarks, customs, businesses and events, illustrated with photographs. Also includes a guestbook and related links.
South Shields Shopmobility - Information about this organisation providing mobility services to the town centre and foreshore area. Membership information, opening times, newsletter and contact information are provided.
St Peter's - Church of England parish church located in Harton. Contact, service and activities information.
St Jude's Church - Church of England parish church on the corner of Laygate and Western Approach. Contact, service and activities information.
St Hildas - Anglican church that dates back to 647. Includes services times, history, contact info and guestbook.
Emmerson, Dave - Personal pages, including family photos and poetry.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem 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 then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Society and Culture True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Society and Culture 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 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Society and Culture This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Society and Culture "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Society and Culture blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Society and Culture "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 Society and Culture People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Society and Culture Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Society and Culture The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Society and Culture Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. Society and Culture Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Society and Culture Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Society and Culture "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Society and Culture Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith 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 Society and Culture "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) 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 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Society and Culture
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