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	Pencak Silat Harimau Minangkabau UK - Based on the teachings of the Hanafi family from Minangkabau, master teacher Richard de Bordes leads this school. Data on the founders, style, events and products, on the instructor, and a photo gallery. [Java menu]
	Silat Perisai Diri in the UK - Developed by Raden Mas Soebandiman Dirdjoatmodjo from East Java, the London schools' official site introduces a modern system of both combative rationale, and techniques from the remote past. Data on its founder, members, teachers, organization, pictures, and contact facilities.
	Pencak Silat Federation of United Kingdom - Monitors Pencak Silat activities in UK. Provides data on competitions, philosophy, clubs, and global Pencak Silat organization networks.
	Silat Association of the United Kingdom - Information on the SAUK, news, data on members, articles, media gallery, discussion board, links, contacts to member schools.

If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Silat "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Silat Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Silat You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Silat Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Silat "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Silat The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Silat Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Silat Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Silat "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Silat "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Silat The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Silat Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Silat "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Silat The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Silat "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Silat "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Silat The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Silat Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Silat Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Silat "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Silat "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. 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