Discovering West Penwith - Guide to the Land's End peninsula with descriptions and photographs of attractions, ancient sites, beaches, gardens and galleries.
Visions of Penwith - Watercolours, pencil drawings, coastal scenes and landscapes by local artist Edwin G Eddy.
St Ives Liberal Democrats - Covering the local activity of the St Ives Lib Dems and their Penzance, Hayle and Helston branches.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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-- Salvador Dali Penwith
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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- unknown Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Penwith
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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-- Shecky Greene "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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-- John Renmerde Penwith
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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-- Francis Bacon All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Penwith
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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-- D. H. Lawrence "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Penwith "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) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Penwith
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
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-- Rainer Maria Ril Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Penwith You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
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-- Voltaire The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Penwith
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
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-- Betty Shabazz Penwith At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
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-- Maurice Maeterlink Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
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-- H. L. Mencken ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
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Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Penwith "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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