North Devon Rail Users Group - The North Devon Rail Users Group exists to support and further the interests of the railway line between Exeter and Barnstaple.
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-- Vincent Van Gogh Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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-- Steven Wright The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Organisations The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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-- Thornton Wilder Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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-- Alvin Toffler "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Organisations "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Helen Rowland I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
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-- Vincent Van Gogh Thought is action in rehearsal.
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-- Bette Davis A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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-- Jean Cocteau Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
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-- Honore de Balzac The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Organisations Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
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-- F. Emerson Andrews A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
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doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Organisations Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
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