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South Caradon Mine - The geology of the mine, history and eyewitness accounts from various periods.
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Bodmin Moor There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Bodmin Moor
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar 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 Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Bodmin Moor "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Bodmin Moor
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "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) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bodmin Moor We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Bodmin Moor
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Bodmin Moor If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Bodmin Moor
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Bodmin Moor Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Bodmin Moor
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Bodmin Moor blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Bodmin Moor
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha 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 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Bodmin Moor I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Bodmin Moor
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Bodmin Moor Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Bodmin Moor
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Bodmin Moor What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Bodmin Moor
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "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) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Bodmin Moor Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Bodmin Moor
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Bodmin Moor When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Bodmin Moor
