Ystalyfera Development Trust - Local community-owned charity looking to improve the social, economic, educational and environmental condition of this former mining community.
Pen-Y-Dre Mission Church - Independent evangelical Church near the centre of Neath. Includes service times.
Neath Port Talbot Badger Group - Information about badgers, legal protection, group activities, photo gallery, and forum.
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Society and Culture You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Society and Culture
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Society and Culture Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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 Society and Culture
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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Society and Culture
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Society and Culture The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Society and Culture 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.
-- Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Society and Culture
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Society and Culture Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
