West Coast Karting - Indoor karting in Maryport. Description of the facilities, the track, and pricing.
Maryport Marina - Marina facilities in Maryport, north west England. Ideal sailing base for access to Scotland and the English Lakes.
Allonby Riding School - Offers beach rides, hacks, horse back riding and an all year round livery service. Photos of the horses, and details of services.
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Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
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-- Lucille Ball Recreation and Sports Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
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-- Anonymous "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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-- Anatole France Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
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-- Flannery O'Connor We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli Recreation and Sports A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Men have become the tools of their tools.
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