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Cynon-Taf Housing Association - Includes a list of the aims and purposes of the association, details of eligibility and how to apply, and information about the care and repair services.
Emmanuel Christian Fellowship - Located in Pentre. Contact details, service schedule, and information on the kids club.
The Changing Face of Religion in the Cynon Valley - History and photographs of various churches.
Taffs Well and Nantgarw Online - Local political issues and party promotional content from the local Plaid Cymru councillor. Include Planning Committee reports and local party newsletter.
Hutchings, Peter - Personal homepage of a resident of Ton-Pentre in the Rhondda. Includes personal and rugby information.
Greencare - Helps local people undertake environmental projects, from community gardens, to access and awareness raising exercises.
Sean James Cameron - Contains biography, book information, and television, radio, and film credits.
Rhondda Cynon Taff Community Information Database - A searchable database of community groups and organisations in the area.
Mearso - Interests in drawing and web technologies.
John, Martin - Personal pages of a former resident of Gilfach Goch now living in Canada.
St John Ambulance Brigade - Information about the Brigade including training and contacts.
I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Society and Culture "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill "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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara Society and Culture "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Society and Culture Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Society and Culture "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James "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 You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Society and Culture 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Society and Culture The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton 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 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? 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 Society and Culture "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Society and Culture "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Society and Culture "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 I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Society and Culture Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning "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) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous 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 Society and Culture Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Society and Culture
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