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Calderdale Christian Web Site - Bringing together the Christians of Calderdale. What is a Christian, discover the Bible, Alpha course, encounters, thoughts and links.
Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures - Information on workshops for local farmers, food producers, suppliers, community organisations, health agencies, public sector bodies and others for local food projects. Details of projects, grow your own, and a calendar of local events.
Calderdale and Kirklees Careers Service Partnership - Helplines directory for Calderdale and Kirklees - contact details for a wide variety of organisations offering advice and support locally.
Calderdale War Memorials - Photographs and histories of war memorial in the area, with listings and details of World War I casualties.
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be Society and Culture We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese 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 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Society and Culture All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson Society and Culture Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Society and Culture Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Society and Culture The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Society and Culture The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop 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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Society and Culture "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' If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Society and Culture Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain "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-) Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Society and Culture "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Society and Culture Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Society and Culture We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Society and Culture "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
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