Bersham Colliery Project - A summary of the project to preserve the colliery, and open it to the public. Includes an outline of the phases involved.
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"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- Arnold Bennett Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
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-- Jonathan S. Haas A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
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-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture 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 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Society and Culture
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
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-- Anonymous Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Society and Culture "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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-- Michael Meissner Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
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-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Society and Culture What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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-- Douglas Coupland If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Society and Culture
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Society and Culture Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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toys?
-- Douglas Coupland It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "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." "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Society and Culture
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha He would make a lovely corpse.
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
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out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Society and Culture Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Society and Culture
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Society and Culture My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
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