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  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna 1992
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
The SINTONs of Southdean - other Surnames: OLIVER, MATHER, WIGHT, ROBSON, THOMSON, TURNBULL, MABON, AINSLIE, HALL, TELFORD/TELFER
Two main links in the earliest generations of this tree are unconfirmed: namely Peter as eldest son of James, and John (marr. Alison HALL) as son of James and Barbara (OLIVER) SINTON
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Thomas Sinton
Margaret Sinton
James Sinton
Janet Oliver
Mary Sinton
Margaret Sinton
Robert Sinton
John Sinton
James Sinton
Elizabeth Sinton
James Sinton
Thomas Sinton
Janet Sinton
Margaret Kay
Mary Sinton
James Sinton
Janet Sinton
Isabel Sinton
John Sinton
James Sinton
Elizabeth Sinton
Margaret Sinton
Barbara Oliver
John White
female White
James White
William White
Peter White
Walter White
Jennet White
Adam White
Andrew White
Cecy White
Elizabeth White
Margaret Wilkie
Janet Sinton
Agnes Sinton
Peter Sinton
Margaret Sinton
Robert Sinton
Rachel Sinton
Mary Sinton
Janet Sinton
Isabella Sinton
Mary Elliot
Peter Sinton
Robert Sinton
Thomas Sinton
James Mather
John Mather
Peter Mather
Janet Mather
Agnes Mather
James Mather
Ann Mather
Margaret Mather
Cecilia Mather
Peter Sinton
Isabella Sinton
Margaret Sinton
Elspeth Sinton
James Sinton
Richard Robson
Jessie Robson
Thomas Robson
Isabella Robson
Richard Robson
Cecila Robson
William Thomson
Jessie Thomson
Alexander Wemyss
John Wemyss