Wisbech Swimming Club - Offers contacts, club structure and background, competition calendar, club shop and Fees. Located in Cambridgeshire, this club caters for learners, competitive swimmers and Masters.
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-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
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-- Ed Bluestone "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) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Theodore Roosevelt Recreation and Sports "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh He who laughs, lasts.
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- e e cummings A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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-- Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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-- Dave Barry Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I drink no more than a sponge.
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-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
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-- Nick Mirov Recreation and Sports Nobody ever died of laughter.
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Recreation and Sports
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
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-- George Bernard Shaw Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 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 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
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-- Euripides Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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-- Pope John Paul I Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Recreation and Sports
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
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-- H. L. Mencken What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Recreation and Sports
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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' Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Recreation and Sports Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
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We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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-- St. Augustine When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
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- Lucille S. Harper There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports
