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James Harland

I am a member of the Astra Choir, the Coatesville Uniting Church, Bicycle Victoria and am a lifelong supporter of the Melbourne Football Club.

Notes

The Harlands' Erratic Millennial Caravanserai (July 1999-- January 2000)

Christmas Broadcasts:

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Words I like

Some Easter poetry
Comments on 'The Return of the King'
Thoughts on the Holy Grail
There are only three seasons in Melbourne: spring, summer and FOOTY SEASON!
It is hard not to like any book entitled `Jolly Roger and the Pirates of Abdul the Skinhead'.
Sherlock Holmes was wrong; when you have eliminated the impossible, what remains is not necessarily the truth, but merely what is possible.
`He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.' (seen in a pie shop, original source unknown).
`If you are patient in one moment of anger you will escape a hundred days of sorrow' --- Chinese proverb.
`An education is what is left when you can no longer recall most of the facts.' --- unknown.
` `The time has come,' the Walrus said,
`To talk of many things:
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax --
Of cabbages -- and kinds --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wings.'
-- from The Walrus and the Carpenter in 'Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carroll
'Sing Choirs of the World!
May your voices take springs
there where fire burns.
May your songs put roses
there where battlefields lay.
Open furrow and sow love
to harvest fruits of hope.
Sing to liberty where despot is,
Sing to equality where poverty nests,
Sing to brotherhood where hate prevails.
May your singing direct the world
so that peace takes over wars,
so that men cherishes earth,
so that all race or color discrimination is banished
so that we will be fraternal
so that this planet rejoices with your voices.'
'When you have more than you need, build a longer table not a higher fence' --- unknown
'Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.' --- G.K. Chesterton
'If you are going through hell, keep going.' --- Winston Churchill
'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.' --- Winston Churchill
'All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.' --- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Arthur C. Clarke famously stated that ''Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'' This certainly seems true to me. Unfortunately it also seems true that the process of getting any sufficiently advanced technology to work as it should is often indistinguisable from voodoo.
'God hath two wings, which He doth ever move,
The one is Mercie, and the next is Love:
Under the first, the Sinners ever trust;
And with the last, He still directs the Just.' --- Robert Herrick

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