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Beckington Astronomical Society - Amateur astronomy society for new and experienced amateur astronomers. Provides observing information and details about the society including meetings and events.
Beckington - Community information about the village on the Somerset/Wiltshire border, includes details of local businesses, churches, transport, events and history.
Pickford House - Describes the bed and breakfast facilities available at this Regency house. Includes details of menus and wine list, local information, rates and contact details.
Springmead School - Provides an introduction to this independent co-educational nursery and pre-preparatory school. With details of curriculum, term dates and contacts.
The Full Moon - Inn offering overnight accommodation in the small hamlet of Rudge. Dogs are made welcome. Photographs, details of accommodation and dining.
Beckington First School - Church of England voluntary controlled school for children aged 4-9. Includes the school song, class pages, curriculum and calendar.
Berkley First School - Prospectus, annual report and childrens work from this Church of England primary school.
Seymours Court - Country house offering bed and breakfast. Includes details of rooms, tariff and facilities.
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One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Beckington I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Beckington All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." 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(Anonymous) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning 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 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Beckington "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Beckington "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Beckington It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress Beckington For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Beckington "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Beckington If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Beckington A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Beckington When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde Beckington Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Beckington "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Beckington "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Beckington Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Beckington People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover 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 Beckington
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