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Argyll and Bute Council - Amalgamation of the former Argyll and Bute District Council, part of the former Dumbarton District Council, the old Argyll and part of the old Dumbarton sub-regions of Strathclyde Regional Council.
Garelochhead Outdoor Education Centre - Day and residential activity courses for schools, youth groups and individuals. Programme and booking details included.
Sportscotland National Centre Cumbrae - One of three national centres providing opportunities in Scottish sport. It has been purpose built to provide the best facilities for watersports, with quality instructors and excellent shore based accommodation.
Kilmartin House - Museum of ancient culture. Over 5,000 years of human history are traced across the Kilmartin Valley. Provides information about the facilities, attractions and activities at the centre.
Nadair Trust - Promoting nature and sustainable development in the Argyll Islands. Providing trust information, project outline, membership form and online newsletters.
Gardens of Argyll and Bute - Details of nineteen gardens that can be found within this area of Scotland. Pictures and descriptions are included together with contact information.
Argyll and Bute Liberal Democrats - Argyll and Bute is represented by Liberal Democrats in Holyrood, Westminster, Europe and on the Council. This is their main website, which includes their latest press releases.
Scotland Online: Argyll and The Isles - Regional weather forecast for one day and five days ahead.
Collholidays - Offering self-catering accommodation on the Hebridean Isle of Coll. Provides property information, availability and contact details.
Argyll Info - Provides general information about the area. Includes photographic gallery and accommodation details grouped by locality.
The Isle of Coll - An introduction to this Hebridean Island, only 13 miles long with a small population. Provides community and visitor information including travel and accommodation.
Tighnabruaich Pier Association - Lists the group activities and promotes interest in the history and conservation of this structure.
The Internet Guide to Argyll - Information covering the Argyll area with content for locals and tourists alike, including, accommodation touring, activities, business finder and lots of high quality researched information. Award winning site serving Argyll on the web since 1997
Mid Argyll Musical Society - Stages an amateur musical in Ardrishaig Hall every November. Photographs and memories from recent shows together with membership and brief history.
Theatre Wild - Outdoor performance and training courses on West Coast. Courses, fees and booking information.
Argyll and the Islands Enterprise - Local enterprise company which aims to support businesses and broaden the skills base of the area.
Lomond and Argyll Primary Care NHS Trust - Healthcare provision in Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire.
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Argyll and Bute You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Argyll and Bute "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. 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Heinlein) Argyll and Bute Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Argyll and Bute Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "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 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Argyll and Bute Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Argyll and Bute The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Argyll and Bute Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Argyll and Bute "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Argyll and Bute In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Argyll and Bute Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Argyll and Bute Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Argyll and Bute For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Argyll and Bute "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Argyll and Bute Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Argyll and Bute Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Argyll and Bute "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "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) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Argyll and Bute Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Argyll and Bute We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Argyll and Bute "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Argyll and Bute
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