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David Henry - Bespoke English oak furniture makers (Flore)
Pro-Tec Aerials - Offers digital tv, aerial installations, repairs and Sky Digital. (Woodford Halse)
Gower Giftware - Sell giftware, specialising in Canal Art, with a description of stock. Located in Fineshade.
Plantsman - Garden centre at West Haddon specialising in plants. Profile, product range, opening times and location map. (West Haddon)
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-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Business and Economy "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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-- Mae West Business and Economy
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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-- Irwin Corey Business and Economy
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
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-- Oscar Wilde "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
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-- Mark Twain Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Jacob Braude Business and Economy
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-- Aldous Huxley The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
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-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Business and Economy "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Business and Economy
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Business and Economy
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Business and Economy
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I shall return.
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-- Woodrow Wilson Business and Economy
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
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-- Calvin Trillin The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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-- Francis Bacon Business and Economy
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
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-- Will Rogers "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Business and Economy
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-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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men.
-- Henry B. Adams The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Business and Economy
