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Liverpool Outdoor Club - Mainly involved in hill walking. Includes information about upcoming activities, and newsletters.

Merseyside Mountaineering Club - Mountaineering and climbing club. Information about activities, membership and the club's origins.

Merseyventure - Outdoor and adventure sports.

Sefton Sea Anglers - Charter, beach and dinghy sections. Information about activities, records, and links to weather and tide sites.

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(John Quincy Adams) Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Outdoors Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Outdoors I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. 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Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer Outdoors The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Outdoors Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Outdoors The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Outdoors I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Outdoors People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Outdoors
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