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Kemdent - Supply specialist dental materials. Includes product descriptions and special offers.
aCEmark Europe - Services and products available from EMC specialists.
Purton House - Organic farm produce available and corporate events such as clay pigeon shooting, team building.
Pear Tree Hotel - Details of facilities at small country house hotel and restaurant with two rosettes. Includes 360 degree panoramic photographs.
Bradon Forest School - Fundraising information and prospectus for comprehensive school.
Maharajah - Menu, reviews and directions to tandoori and balti restaurant.
Purton Museum - Representing 2,000 years of the village's history from the Ringsbury Camp Iron Age Hillfort, through Roman and Saxon finds towards the present day. With museum catalogue, events and courses.
The Present Event - Illustrates products stocked by Purton giftshop, contact information and maps. Also a design and print service, and illustrated talks on a variety of themes.
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Purton "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Purton I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Purton "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Purton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Purton The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Purton Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Purton Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Purton The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Purton I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Purton The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Purton MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Purton Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Purton Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Purton "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Purton "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Purton I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Purton I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Purton "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Purton I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Purton The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Purton In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Purton
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