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The Bang On The Wall Band - A Ceilidh Dance, to be held on October 11 2003, in Newton Linford, details and prices.
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- Mahatma Gandhi The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Drink to me.
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is a chance."
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ages as much as 20 years.
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opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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th Charnwood "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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-- Rene Descartes The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Charnwood Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Charnwood
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Charnwood "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
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Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Charnwood "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 fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Charnwood "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Charnwood
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Charnwood Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Charnwood
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Charnwood "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Charnwood
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Charnwood A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Charnwood "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Charnwood
