St Edwards Roman Catholic and Church of England Comprehensive School - A joint Roman Catholic and Church of England funded school in the Oakdale area of Poole. Information is included about the successes of the school and what they offer. Site now includes a virtual tour and information on ex-students.
Rossmore Community College, Poole - A mixed school, for pupils aged 12-18, with Sports College Status serving the Rossmore, Parkstone, Newtown, Wallisdown and Alderney areas of the town. Website contains information about the subjects offered, the staff and OFSTED reports.
Corfe Hills School - A mixed comprehensive school for students aged 13 to 18 years (Broadstone)
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
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-- Winston Churchill Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
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Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
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- Abraham Lincoln Education I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
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-- Anonymous No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Education
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
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-- Jackie Mason Education If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
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-- Ovid I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Education
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
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problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Education "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Education There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Education
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
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-- Bill Moyers Education If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "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) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Education
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Education "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education
