Stourport Athletic Club - Basic information about the club, and a list of club coaches and qualified judges.
Stourport Yacht Club - Includes a brief history of the club, and information about membership. Also provides details of club moorings, and members' vessels.
Stourport Divers - Provides information about the group and its activities, along with photos and details of the scuba diving courses available.
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-- Oscar Wilde If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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- Ross MacDonald The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Recreation and Sports "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Recreation and Sports
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
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-- Helen Keller "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Recreation and Sports
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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
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-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
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-- English Professor, Ohio University Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "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." Recreation and Sports Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Recreation and Sports
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Antonio Machado All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
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My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Recreation and Sports Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
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per By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Recreation and Sports
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Recreation and Sports
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Recreation and Sports The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Recreation and Sports
