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System Software Solutions - Specialist in the provision of IT security solutions. Site gives details of services and products available.

Rubery Village - Community website featuring village history, news, local events, and an online forum.

Rubery.com - Directory of businesses and attractions in Rubery. Also includes a photo gallery.

Beacon Scout Group (Birmingham 277th) - Includes news and events diary, photo gallery, and joining details.

Beacon Church Centre - A United Reformed Church with worshippers from a variety of Christian backgrounds. Site gives details of worship and prayer, community users, and a brief history of the centre.

Rubery Youth Marching Band - Includes general information about the band, events diary, online newsletters, and details of fund-raising. [may not work in all browsers]

Rubery Village - Provides historical information and photos of the area today.

I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Rubery If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Rubery True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Rubery Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Rubery 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 More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Rubery If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Rubery Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Rubery Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Rubery "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Man and wife make one fool. Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Rubery There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Rubery Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Rubery Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Rubery If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Rubery Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Rubery "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Rubery I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Rubery Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Rubery Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Rubery 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Rubery This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Rubery Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H Rubery We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Rubery
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