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St Augustine's Church - Includes an illustrated history and restoration appeal. This fine polychromatic church was designed by the notable Victorian architect, William Butterfield.

Tabernacle Baptist Church - History, location, services, pastor profile and sermons, and photo gallery.

Epilepsy Penrath - A support group that is open to anyone with epilepsy in and around the region.

1st Penarth Boys` Brigade - Youth Organisation for boys aged between 7-18 based in Penarth.

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Society and Culture The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Society and Culture the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Society and Culture "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) That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Society and Culture Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Society and Culture For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Society and Culture "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Society and Culture What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Society and Culture To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Society and Culture 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 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Society and Culture It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Society and Culture "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Society and Culture "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) 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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Society and Culture A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) 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 "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Society and Culture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Society and Culture
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