The Rotaract Club of Sutton Coldfield - Social organisation for everyone between 18 and 30. Includes details of charities donated to and upcoming events.
Sutton Coldfield Methodist Church - Services, groups, music, events, links and contacts. Part of the Birmingham, Sutton Park, circuit.
Greg Beech - Includes CV and articles on programming.
Friends R Us - A social group where people can enjoy a range of activities from bowling to rambling to meals out. Includes event programme and photos.
Four Oaks Methodist Church - Worship, team, activities, overview, newsletter and contact. Part of the Sutton Park, Birmingham circuit.
Norman Laud Association - Support for children and young adults with special needs. Includes details of the nursery, respite care, 'before and after school' service, and fund-raising initiatives.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Oscar Wilde Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Society and Culture
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Society and Culture "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Society and Culture
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "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) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
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-- Dr. Strangelove The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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-- John Allston Society and Culture
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Facts are the enemy of truth.
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the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
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-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Society and Culture "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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
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If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 Society and Culture Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Society and Culture
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
