Richard Birkett - Lives in Cambridge with 3 cats and 6 fish.
Sid Harding - General Life - The personal and often funny insight into this professional heavy earthmoving operator.
Jean and Robert Laws - Their houseboat and useful information about navigation near Cambridge. Clay sculptures.
Alan Godfrey's Website - Alan Godfrey's site containing photographs of some of the people at Trinity Hall College Cambridge, and the famous Korner corner.
Spencer-Thomas, Owen - Short biography and contacts for an official of the Diocese of Ely.
Stephen Clamp - Contains information about his part in St Thomas' Lupus Trust awareness scheme.
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-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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-- Gamaliel Bradford Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Personal Pages
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Personal Pages Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
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-- Lyster Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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-- Anaïs Nin Personal Pages
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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
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-- Finley Peter Dunne Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
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-- Abraham Lincoln Personal Pages "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
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- Mel Brooks Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Personal Pages
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- George Bernard Shaw "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
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of u Personal Pages "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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--Loesje It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Personal Pages
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Personal Pages Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Personal Pages
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I have read your book and much like it.
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We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
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