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Sussex Japan Society - A resource for anyone interested in Japan, Japanese people, culture, language, history, food and travel to Japan.
Family Mediation in Sussex - Information on Family Mediation, including how it works and what needs to be done. Includes list of mediation practices.
TORCH Community Housing - Provide residential and day time services for people with learning disabilities. Includes information about the various facilities.
Takes 2 - Dating agency. Includes benefits and code of practice.
Fernhurst Society - Information about the Society, as well as a history of Fernhurst, photos, maps and details of meetings.
Federation of Sussex Amenity Societies - The Federation is a grouping of some 85 amenity, protection and preservation societies whose aim is to preserve and enhance Sussex and protect it from harmful development.
Ye Olde Sussex Pages - Articles on the history of Sussex.
Villages Action Group - Protests against new housing in the Six Villages area of the county. Background, planning arguments and membership information.
Shoreham Old Fort - Describes this 19th century redoubt and one at Littlehampton with their histories.
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Society and Culture This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Society and Culture It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Society and Culture "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein Society and Culture It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide "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) I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Society and Culture Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Society and Culture The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Society and Culture "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Society and Culture Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Society and Culture May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Society and Culture In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara Society and Culture Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Society and Culture
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