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Bridgend Library & Information Service - General information, local branch locations and hours, mobile library, information services, children's and housebound services, what's on, and link to online catalogue.
Celtica Radio - Independent radio company. Programme details, with information for listeners and advertisers.
Valley and Vale Community Arts - Organisation offering workshops in video, animation, photography, music,dance, drama and the visual arts. Projects, news and details of their media centre.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll "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) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West 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 Arts and Entertainment "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Arts and Entertainment The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Arts and Entertainment "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Arts and Entertainment "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Arts and Entertainment "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Arts and Entertainment Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Arts and Entertainment One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford 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 Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Arts and Entertainment "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Arts and Entertainment There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arts and Entertainment In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Arts and Entertainment I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Arts and Entertainment My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Arts and Entertainment Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Arts and Entertainment "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Arts and Entertainment
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