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	Falmouth Packet Archives (1688-1850) - For 162 years Falmouth was the communications gateway of Britain, with postal packet ships sailing to 43 countries. Includes history, postal / philatelic, naval, maritime, genealogical and educational timelines.
	The History of Glasney College - Founded in 1265, Glasney was one of the most important ecclesiastical Institutions in West Cornwall. History, location and friends society.
	Falmouth Green Centre - Independent community enterprise operating on co-operative principles, supporting sustainable living practices. Green fairs, projects and news.

The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Society and Culture Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Society and Culture Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Society and Culture "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Society and Culture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Society and Culture The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Society and Culture People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Society and Culture It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf 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 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Society and Culture Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Society and Culture Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "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) Society and Culture When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." 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