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Flintshire Disability Action / Gweithredu Anabledd Sir y Fflint - Information, advice and resources for people with physical disabilities and sensory impairments in Flintshire, North Wales. Includes links to other Welsh and UK disability related sites.English/Cymraeg
Campaign Against the New Kiln - Details of the campaign opposing the erection of a cement kiln at Castle Cement's, Padeswood, to burn toxic waste. Includes an overview of the proposals, maps of the area, news, and information on how people can take part.
Dawnswyr Delyn - Welsh dancing group based in Flintshire, UK.
Northop Hall Cricket and Hockey Club - Includes hockey club aims, information, fees, rule of player conduct and spectators, cricket club profile, news, fixtures, and results.
Clwyd Family History Society - Voluntary society covering North East Wales including Flintshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham. Part of UK and Ireland Genealogy Site.
Cefn Croes Campaign - Official site of the campaign against the Cefn Croes Wind Farm. Includes news, dates, a photograph of the landscape, a map of the location, and contact details.
Diana Children's Nursing Service - Nursing service for sick children in North Wales, UK.
History of Shotton - Detailed history of Shotton in Flintshire
Flintshire Childcare Partnership - A partnership of many organisations aimed at improving services for children aged 0-14.
Flintshire Genealogy - Part of the UK and Ireland Genealogy site.
Connahs Quay Childminders Group - Play parks listed and rated. Message board, gallery and contact details for the groups childminders.
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Society and Culture "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Society and Culture I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Society and Culture People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Society and Culture When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle 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) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Society and Culture A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Society and Culture Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Society and Culture The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Society and Culture Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Society and Culture It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Society and Culture Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Society and Culture Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston 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 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 Society and Culture Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Society and Culture The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
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