Castle Cove Sailing club - An RYA affiliated club that has a busy racing calendar both for dinghies and keelboats. Profile, events and membership information.
Osprey Archery Club - Club information, records, photographs, beginners courses, and links.
Walking Tours in Hardy Country - Organises guided walks through the countryside of Thomas Hardy's novels. Includes tour descriptions and contact information.
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Oscar Wilde Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Recreation and Sports
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-- Elbert Hubbard There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
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-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- Fran Lebowitz Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "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) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Female philosopher 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 Recreation and Sports
