Summerseat Players - Amateur dramatics group. Contains information about the location of the Theatre Royal and the current and future productions at the theatre.
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worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
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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 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
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-- Michel de Montaigne "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "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) Arts and Entertainment
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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-- Henny Youngman You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Arts and Entertainment
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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-- H. G. Wells, dying words Arts and Entertainment
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
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intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
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-- Sacha Guitry Arts and Entertainment "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler 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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) My other wife is beautiful. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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-- John Renmerde Arts and Entertainment
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
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"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Molly Ivins Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Arts and Entertainment Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
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