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The Royal Show - Famous exhibition of farming, food and the countryside at the National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire.
Warwickshire Conservation Volunteers - Helping volunteers actively protect and enhance the landscape and its wildlife whilst improving access into the countryside.
Warwickshire Bat Group - Conservation group. Information about types of bats in Warwickshire, boxes, cams, detectors, talks, bat walks, bats and the law, batty products, gardening, membership and newsletters.
Warwickshire St John Ambulance - Includes information about volunteering, young members, first aid, and service to public events.
James Plaskitt MP - Labour MP representing Warwick and Leamington.
Warwickshire Scout Council - Who's Who, county events, diary, gang show and district pages.
The Warwickshire Wildlife Trust - Local environmental charity, protecting wildlife and natural places throughout Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull.
Whitnash Residents Association - Features information about the Association and its activities, and local links.
North Warwickshire Council for Voluntary Service - Offers practical support tot he voluntary sector in North Warwickshire through training, library services and representation. Find news, events, courses and publications.
North Warwickshire Volunteer Bureau - Promotes volunteering in North Warwickshire; information about opportunities for volunteers and organisations who could use their skills.
The Forest Hermitage - Buddhist monastery. Teachings, news, details for visitors, plus information on Buddhist shrines in prisons.
Rotaract Club of Leamington & Warwick - A fund-raising, community service and social club for 18-30 year olds.
Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record - A database of images and information about thousands of sites and finds in the county, dating from prehistory through to the 20th century. Discovery Zone for young people. Glossary.
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) 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 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Society and Culture You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Society and Culture "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Society and Culture You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture "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 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Society and Culture Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Society and Culture "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Society and Culture The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Society and Culture For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Society and Culture I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Society and Culture Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Society and Culture "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
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