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Redditch Vineyard - Redditch Vineyard Church welcomes all who are seeking Christian fellowship. Its mission is to worship God and make Him known to others.
Oasis Christian Centre - Information, photographs, activities, youth, services, a forum, and links.
VW Kübelwagen Type 82 - Restoration of war time German Kubelwagen with information, tips, wanted/for sale page, photos and links.
Ghosts of Redditch - Stories and photos of the paranormal in and around Redditch.
Redditch Deaf Club - Dedicated to the promotion of the use of British Sign Language (BSL). Includes teaching pages with finger spelling, vocabulary, Multi channel signs. Also contains pages on deaf aware, deaf aids, sign songs and deaf poems.
Redditch Speakers Club - Helps people to become more confident and able public speakers, through guided self learning in an informal environment. Includes event calendar and news.
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Society and Culture When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Society and Culture Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Society and Culture A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Society and Culture Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Society and Culture I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Society and Culture Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) May you never leave your marriage alive. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Society and Culture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Society and Culture the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Society and Culture Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Society and Culture "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Society and Culture Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "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 Society and Culture Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Society and Culture A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture
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