Gosforth Cross - Pictures and description of the Pre-Norman stone cross at St Mary's Church, Gosforth.
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Saint Joseph's Church - Mass times, contact details, location, notices, coming events, parish history, other local churches.
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-- Ludwig Wittgenstein To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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-- Epicurus If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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-- Danny Kaye My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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-- Cormac McCarthy Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
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Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
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-- Dinah Shore "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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