Brampton Live - The biggest folk festival in the north of England held on 3 days during July at William Howard School. Guide to the artists, places to stay, and pictures and reviews of last years event.
Wipeout - Cumbria and the Borders 50's and 60's rock and pop band. Live music for weddings and birthdays, clubs and pubs. From Brampton.
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Arts and Entertainment Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
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-- H. Jackson Brown To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Arts and Entertainment
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Arts and Entertainment "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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- Father Larry Lorenzoni Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
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- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
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ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
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-- T. S. Eliot Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Arts and Entertainment A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Arts and Entertainment
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Arts and Entertainment One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Arts and Entertainment
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "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 Arts and Entertainment As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Arts and Entertainment
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Arts and Entertainment There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Martin Luther "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "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. Arts and Entertainment 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 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment
