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Castleford Christian Centre - Information about Castleford Apostolic Church and its activities. Includes contact details.
St Edmund's, Airedale - Introduction to Catholic Church in Airedale, Castleford, West Yorkshire, and also chaplaincy work at HMP Wakefield. Details of services and parish news.
History of Castleford - Traces development of the borough, comments on its present state and provides links.
Trinity Methodist Church - Offers premises, activities, events including services, magazine, location, projects and resources, circuit, district and contacts.
Five Towns Christian Fellowship - Information about services and meetings; member of the Evangelical Alliance. Two congregations in Castleford and Knottingley, and developing groups in Pontefract, Featherstone and Normanton.
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Society and Culture "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Society and Culture Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Society and Culture If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Society and Culture I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Society and Culture Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Society and Culture Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Society and Culture My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Society and Culture "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Society and Culture Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Society and Culture 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms 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 Society and Culture
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