Boveedy Flute Band - Based in Boveedy near Kilrea. Includes the band history, latest news and dairy of events.
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that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
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-- Lord Rutherford Arts and Entertainment We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
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-- Robert Benchley Arts and Entertainment
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
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"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud He who laughs, lasts.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Arts and Entertainment
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This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
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