The Isle of Man: A Personal View - A number of photographs showing views of different aspects of the Isle of Man as seen and recorded over the years.
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never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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-- Ed Bluestone To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Photos Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
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-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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therefore congenial to it.
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-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Photos
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
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-- Oscar Wilde You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
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-- Jackie Gleason "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Photos
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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-- Steven Wright Photos Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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-- Jenny Weber Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Photos
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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-- Mary Buckley Photos Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Photos
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
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comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
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"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Photos There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Photos
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Photos Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
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-- George Jean Nathan Photos
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Photos
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
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-- Adlai Stevenson When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Photos This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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