Copley Karate Centre - Martial Arts for all ages from 4 years upwards. Information on clubs and techniques taught.
Stalybridge Archery Club - Founded in 1958 and includes information on records, constitution, rules, membership and useful links.
Stayley Cricket Club - Includes fixtures, results, links to local clubs and details of the facilities.
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- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Recreation and Sports We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
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-- Harry S. Truman Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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-- Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports
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It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
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- Will Rogers Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
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- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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-- Adlai Stevenson The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
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 The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
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-- William James Recreation and Sports
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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- Alice Roosevelt Longworth It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
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-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Recreation and Sports We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
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