Southport Marine Lake - Links to groups using the lake, events diary, a noticeboard for items on sale, and a photo gallery.
Southport Sailing School - Dinghy sailing instruction, and sale of boats, clothing and other items.
West Lancashire Yacht Club - Results, reports and calendar of events, including the 24 Hour Race. Dinghy and powerboat training, and information for members.
Southport Swimming Club - Club offering swimming lessons, competitive swimming, synchro and water polo. Events diary, training times and competition results.
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- Oscar Wilde Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
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-- Kant, Immanuel Water Sports All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
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-- H.L. Mencken Water Sports
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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-- Unknown history student Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Water Sports
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-- George Santayana Water Sports
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Jacob Braude "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Water Sports "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Water Sports If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury To love another person is to see the face of God.
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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-- Dwight L. Moody Water Sports Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
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-- Madeleine L'Engle Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
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-- H. L. Mencken Water Sports
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Water Sports "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
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Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
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-- Bill Moyers There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Water Sports Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Water Sports "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
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-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Water Sports "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Water Sports
