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This is Calne - Guide with news, sports and leisure activities, schools, businesses, and other local resources.
Calne Town Website - Includes business A-Z, magazine covering local issues, and community information.
Calne Old Students - News and messages from ex-students of John Bentley, Bentley Grammar and Fynamore Schools.
St Margaret's Preparatory School - Location, curriculum, available activities, staff information and enquiry form.
Chilvester Hill House - Guest house information including prices, location and contact details.
Lansdowne Strand Hotel - Photographs, prices and information about accommodation, functions and dining facilities.
Calne Town Council - Information about committees and members, meetings and election results.
Compton Bassett.com - Details of village activities, news and events. Forum and items for sale.
Calne Bentley Grammar School - Ex Students - Reunion information, photographs, magazine scans and contact details.
Saint Edmund's Parish - Parish history, contact details, bulletin and Mass times.
International Meditation Centre - Photographs of pagoda and grounds plus costs and background information.
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Calne Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Calne "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Calne I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Calne The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Calne Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Calne The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Calne We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Calne I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Calne The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Calne There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Calne To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Calne In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen Calne At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Calne I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Calne "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Calne Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Calne Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Calne Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Calne "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Calne Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Calne Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Calne
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