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Cliff College - Lay theological training college, Methodist Church sponsored and linked to Sheffield University, for people from any denomination over 18 years. Includes course information and application details, conferences, events, evangelical ministries, hire of facilities and bookshop.
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"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Calver If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Calver Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Calver "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Calver We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Calver I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Calver 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) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Calver "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Calver "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Calver The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning 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 Calver What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Calver Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Calver Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Calver "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Calver Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard Calver "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Calver It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries "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) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Calver "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Calver You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin "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) Calver Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Calver Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Calver In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Calver
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