Compton Verney Art Gallery - New Art Gallery in South Warwickshire. Containing collections of British portraits, Northern European paintings, Neapolitan paintings, furniture and applied arts. Details of collection and launch programme.
The Leamington and Warwick Magic Society - Open to all professional and non-professional magicians as well as those with a serious interest in the art of magic. History, events and reports of meetings.
The Ullenhall Players - Amateur dramatics society. Productions, monthly news and contact details.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
All you need is love.
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
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He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
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-- Bill Moyers You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
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-- Paul Ehrlich Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- Luther Burbank, dying words Arts and Entertainment
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
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-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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-- Albert Einstein I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
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