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Trevithick Day - April festival of free street entertainment celebrating the inventor, Richard Trevithick. Includes attractions, dance routes, short biography and photographs.

Nigel Bland Pianos - Piano retailer with international clientele. New and pre-owned, products, services, client list and contact details.

Camborne Town Band - History, diary, members list, news, youth band and band shop.

Camborne Music Festival - Annual competitive festival for amateur instrumentalists and vocalists. Provides classes, winners, rules of festival and tips for new competitors.

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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Arts and Entertainment The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Arts and Entertainment "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce Arts and Entertainment The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Arts and Entertainment I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Arts and Entertainment The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Arts and Entertainment Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Arts and Entertainment "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers 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 Arts and Entertainment Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Arts and Entertainment When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Arts and Entertainment In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Arts and Entertainment "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "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 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Arts and Entertainment A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Arts and Entertainment My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Arts and Entertainment Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Arts and Entertainment
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