The Cranbrook Art Show - Annual showcase of work by artists from around the Weald of Kent. Includes location, guide to exhibitors and contact information.
Cranbrook Choral Society - Includes upcoming and past perfomances, membership details and booking information.
Cranbrook Operatic and Dramatic Society - Includes society information and history, newsletters and details of future and past performances. Also features activities for the Chippies Junior Section of CODS.
Cranbrook Town Band - Includes photos, diary dates, news, sound files and contact information.
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-- Billy Sunday "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
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-- George Santayana May you never leave your marriage alive. Arts and Entertainment
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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-- H. L. Mencken I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Arts and Entertainment Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
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-- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
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- Anais Nin Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
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-- Moliere "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Arts and Entertainment
Use your own best judgment at all times.
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-- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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-- Groucho Marx Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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-- Steven Wright If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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-- Henry Ford Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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-- Ellen Hubbard Arts and Entertainment "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
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Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Arts and Entertainment What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment
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- Alice Roosevelt Longworth A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
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