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The Mounts Bay Lugger Association - Association restoring a Cornish lugger, The Happy Return, gives her history and her progress.
Penzance Madron Scout Group - Scouts, beavers, cubs, venture scouts and explorer scouts. Meetings, location and how to join.
Jessica Mann - Writer of crime and suspense novels. Biography, books and current projects. Includes chapters of some books.
Penzance Buddhist Meditation Group - Principles and advice on meditation. Location and times of drop in meditation classes.
The Hypatia Trust - Collects and make available published and personal documentation about the achievements of women. Library, facilities and projects.
Minack Chronicles Trust - Environmental and educational charity established in the Will of the late author Derek Tangye. Nature reserve, bursary and archives.
YMCA Cornwall - Christian youth association offers a range of facilities including a backpackers hostel, cafe, cybercafe, kids club and sports halls.
Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception - Also serving Saint Just and Saint Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. Contact information, Mass times, history, photos.
Chapel Street Methodist Church - Local information, service times and history.
St Mary's Church - Service schedule, photographs of the church, a virtual tour and details of a booklet on local history.
Kriya Yoga - Elizabeth Holman. Classes in Penzance, workshops with tours, plus background information on her teachers and spiritual approach.
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Society and Culture Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Society and Culture I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Society and Culture Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Society and Culture As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Society and Culture Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture "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) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Society and Culture When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Society and Culture When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Society and Culture 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 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Society and Culture Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Society and Culture "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Society and Culture 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) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
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