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Tony Quinn's VR Leeds - A street by street virtual reality tour of the City of Leeds, with hundreds of panoramic images on line. Includes interior tours of tourist attractions, park exteriors and the Leeds United football ground.
Seacroft Village - Comprehensive guide and history for this ancient village, now a suburb of east Leeds, run by the Seacroft Village Preservation Society. Directory of useful community information and pictures.
Chapel Allerton Community - Information about the Chapel Allerton Project, community arts centre, festival. Includes a community directory, and links to webpages of local groups. Pictures of the arts festival.
Leeds Regional Information Service - Includes travel and tourism, business information, entertainment, what's on, community information, emergency numbers and helplines, maps, bus and train timetables and accommodation.
Oakwood Online - Community site containing details of events, activities, businesses, schools, churches and transport. Sponsored by St John's and Roundhay Methodist churches.
Leeds Urban Countryside Guide - On-line guide to the green areas of Leeds, in three areas. Information on parks, woods, green corridors, nature reserves. Includes public transport link.
Leeds Discussion Forum - A discussion board for and about Leeds. Including news and events.
Whitkirk - A fine example of a community website for Whitkirk, a thriving village/suburb of East Leeds. Information and pictures about local school, church, organisations, events, and businesses.
Colton Community Online - Providing news and information for Colton village and the surrounding area.
Chapel Allerton Community Web Site - An independent not for profit site for the community of Chapel Allerton, with news, events, links and a discussion board.
Bramley History Community Archive - Pictures and information of times gone by in the village of Bramley. Includes details of publications from the Bramley History Society.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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 Leeds When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Leeds Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Leeds Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Leeds The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Leeds If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde Leeds "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Leeds "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Leeds The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Leeds Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Leeds Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Leeds "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Leeds Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Leeds "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) 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 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Leeds The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Leeds May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Leeds Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Leeds Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Leeds I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Leeds What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Leeds We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Leeds Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Leeds
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