Kilbarchan Amateur Athletic Club - Results and training details for Renfrewshire's top athletics club covering track and field, cross country, road and hill running.
Barrhead Methodist Church - Small church offers services, contact and notices. Part of the Ayrshire and Renfrewshire circuit.
Calderside Football Club - Listing results, player profiles, news of activities for a youth football team.
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-- Bobcat Goldthwait As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
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- Irvin S. Cobb Recreation and Sports Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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-- Winston Churchill Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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-- Female philosopher Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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-- Polish proverb Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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- A. J. Liebling And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Recreation and Sports
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
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-- H. L. Mencken Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Robert M. Pirsig Recreation and Sports
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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-- Winston Churchill Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
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-- Chinese Proverb Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Recreation and Sports
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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-- H. G. Wells, dying words "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." I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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difficult.
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-- Yiddish Proverb Recreation and Sports More light!
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people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
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