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	Monkwearmouth Station Museum - Victorian Station and booking office with large collection of railway and second world war memorabilia. Details of opening hours, contact information, educational visits and ways to get involved.
	The Hendon Hub - A network of community based organisations, developed and run by local people, which aims to give everyone who wants to the opportunity to take part in the information society.
	South Hylton Local History Society - History of the village, exhibitions, publications and details of the people involved.
	Wear Body Positive - A self-help organisation located in the city offering information, support and help to anyone affected or infected by HIV/AIDS, including friends, families, carers and partners.
	The Road Adoption Campaign - A campaigning group looking at the issue of unadopted roads in the Sunderland area. Details of the problem, suggested solutions, contact information and campaign news.
	Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens - Art gallery, collection of ancient artefacts and gardens featuring 1500 different plants. Details of collections, history, opening hours and ways to get involved.
	Sunderland Metric Martyrs - Defense fund for Steve Thoburn and Neil Herron, who were prosecuted under British law for using imperial measurements. Provides background, related cases, and links.
	Sunderland Maritime Heritage Museum - Project to bring the City of Adelaide sailing vessel back to Wearside. Details of the ship, its history and the challenges faced by the team.
	A Short History of Sunderland - A concise history of the city of the city from 1100 to the present day.
	Sunderland Rotary Club - One of seven Rotary Clubs in Sunderland. Information about club activities, weekly social and monthly business events.
	Sunderland Council for Voluntary Service - Searchable database providing details but of over 500 local organisations. Contact details are not published but can be obtained by phone or email.
	Cannyfolk.com - Local photos of coast, churches and parks.

All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Society and Culture The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein 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 Society and Culture Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Society and Culture Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Society and Culture Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Society and Culture Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Society and Culture The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Society and Culture "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Society and Culture "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Society and Culture Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |