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CommuniGate - Provides free self-built websites for non-profit community organisations and groups, church, schools, and charities, grouped by region.
Know Britain - Features short articles on aspects of history and culture, including the Union Jack, country houses, education and the definitions of United Kingdom, Great Britain and British Isles.
Laketrue - Life advice in the style of daily diary entries, covering pretty much everything we all come up against in life.
Time Banks UK - A way for people to come together and help each other. Participants 'deposit' their time by giving practical help and support and are able to 'withdraw' their time when they need something done themselves. Directory of UK Time Banks and resources.
British Culture for Americans - Collected reflections on the distinguishing characteristics of British culture. Includes "British-American/American-British" dictionary.
Culture Lab UK - Guide to style, culture and technology in the UK from the British Council.
LusoCultura - A database of Portuguese cultural events in the UK, information, institutions, and other website links.
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 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 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Society and Culture I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Society and Culture "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Society and Culture A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Society and Culture As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Society and Culture 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Society and Culture The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Society and Culture The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson Society and Culture The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Society and Culture "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Society and Culture Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Society and Culture A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Society and Culture To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Society and Culture I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Spinster: A bachelor's wife. 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 It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Society and Culture
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