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Glangwynedd Holiday Cottage - A self-catering cottage ideal for 4 people, situated in rural location, close to Machynlleth and the Centre for Alternative Technology. On national cycle route 8. Good for walks,cycling and wildlife.
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take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
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- Sir Winston Churchill Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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-- Samuel Johnson Accommodation
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- George Burns Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Accommodation
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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a fortune Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Accommodation
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the palm Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Will Rogers Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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-- John-Paul Sartre I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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remains fa I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
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when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
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