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Museum Of Egyptian Antiquities - Guide to the Egypt Centre, home to part of the Sir Henry Wellcome collection. Includes a brief history of the collection, and contact details.
Swansea History Web - Images, articles, and documents related to local history. Includes teachers and students guide.
Tai Esgyn Housing - Provides supported accommodation in the area, for people with mental health problems. Contact details, along with an overview of the organisation and the services it offers.
Swansea Youth Forum [YoungSwansea.Net] - Check out how young people in swansea are getting involved in making the city & county a better place to live in.
Swansea Scene - Personal homepages with a humorous guide to local history, personalities, and attractions.
StIC - Stop the Incinerator Campaign - Scientific findings, events and details of how to help. Incinerator is located in Swansea, UK.
SwanseaBoy - Expresses opinions about a variety of issues.
Leaves, Ian - Personal information and photos.
Morriston Computer Users Group - Includes history, resources, meeting venue, club rules, directory of members, and information about the local community.
Swansea Bay Racial Equality Council - Includes message from the director.
Sketty Youth Project - Details of the Christian charity operating in West Swansea. Includes news, information about their activities, and a prayer request form.
Grovesend - Includes some personal photographs of the area.
Swansea Skills Service - Aims to develop and promote coordinated basic and key skills provision across the City and County of Swansea.
The Penllergare Trust - Details of the trusts objectives. Contact information.
Swansea Local History - Written by locals. Regions include Llansamlet, Gorseinon and Pontarddulais.
Swanseaheritage.net - Displays objects from past history of the area, Wales and the rest of the world in 6 galleries. Includes photos and details of the themes displayed, hours, educational programs and directions.
Swansea Council Unison ICT Staff - Council IT staff concerned about out-sourcing. Includes opinion, forum and links to press articles.
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Society and Culture The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "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) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Society and Culture Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Society and Culture Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Society and Culture Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Society and Culture "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Society and Culture There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "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) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Society and Culture Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture 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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Society and Culture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Society and Culture "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Society and Culture Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Society and Culture Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Society and Culture Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Society and Culture We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Society and Culture
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