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National Library of Wales - The library is one of the UK's copyright libraries, and also holds collections of records of interest to the family historian. The site includes databases to the library's book collection and part of the manuscript collection, and several on-line exhibitions. English/Cymraeg.
Nanteos Mansion - History of Nanteos Estate, that formerly covered over 30,000 acres. Includes photographs.
AberEvents - Social organisation for gay, lesbian, transgendered and bisexual locals and students. Includes event information and links.
Centre for Recovery - Information about drug or alcohol misuse, addiction and recovery.
CyFLe Aberystwyth LETS - The Aberystwyth Local Exchange group. Swap goods and services with others at no cost. Includes directory listings, details of membership, and a general explanation of LETS.
Ceredigion Archives - Preserving and making available records of the county's history. Includes a list of resources, recent acquisitions and details of the lecture service.
Manchester United Supporters Club Aberystwyth and District - Includes membership information, picture page, club fixtures and results and branch newsletters.
Aberystwyth and District Archaeological Society - Promotes interest and participation in archaeology in Aberystwyth and the surrounding area. Includes information on local history, field work and initiatives.
New-revolution - Aber University MethSoc based on St Pauls Methodist Church. Information about the Committee, events and meeting times, purpose, notices, links, constitution and contact.
St Paul's Methodist Centre - English and Welsh speaking congregations. Worship information including services, circuit, contact and links. Part of the Ceredigion circuit.
Aberpics - A site dedicated to photos of Aberystwyth and surrounding area.
EoinSite - Eoin's web page. A silly site for all Eoin's friends! Fun for children with links to kids sites both commercial and non-commercial.
The Bid for City Status - Presentation of the case for Aberystwyth's bid to become a city.
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. 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 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Society and Culture "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) "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." "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Society and Culture A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Society and Culture "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz 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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Society and Culture The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Society and Culture "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl 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 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Society and Culture blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Society and Culture "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm 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 Society and Culture "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Society and Culture "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "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) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Society and Culture If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber Society and Culture You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Society and Culture "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Society and Culture The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Society and Culture
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