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Isle of Lismore Community - News, events, history, flora and fauna, ferry details, photo gallery, accommodation and information about the Isle of Lismore.
Loch Awe - North end of Loch Awe community web site.
Gareloch and Rosneath Peninsula - Community site for villages of Cove, Kilcreggan, Rosneath, Clynder and Garelochhead. Includes information on news and events, clubs and societies, businesses, tourist attractions, travel, local history, natural history, a classified directory of links related to the area.
The Scottish Slate Islands Heritage Trust - The life and times of the people within the islands of the Isle of Seil, Easdale Island, the Isle of Luing, and Belnahua.
Kyles of Bute, Kames and Tighnabruaich - Community site presenting travel information about the area, facilities, hotels and leisure activities.
Garelochhead - Village located 35 miles north west of Glasgow. Useful information on current events and local information.
Tayvallich Village - Community pages for this fishing village on the West coast; including accommodation, the community, sailing, virtual tour, wildlife, local artists, food and drink, things to do.
Tom Laurenson's - Home page with information about Oban and Argyll, twin towns in North Carolina and Eire and an Argyll Diary.
Duke of Edinburghs Award - Information on the Mid Argyll Award Group' affairs for award participants and any other interested parties. Includes a photograph album and an extensive links library relating to the Scheme.
Argyllshire Scotland: Scotland GenWeb - Includes genealogy and history resources, bulletin board, surname pages, mailing list information, links to online records, local resources and regional clans.
Saddleview Online - Providing local pictures and information of interest for visitors to the area.
Friends of the MacDougall Collection - Offering a unique folk life collection. Listing news, gallery and contact pages.
The Hilary Smith Woodland Trust - The Trust owns land in Argyll which it aims to replant with native trees. The site describes the Trust and details the work days at the woodland.
Arduaine, Kilmelford and Kilninver - Community pages providing calendar of events, business info, visitor info and transport sharing for local residents.
Argyll New Connections - Alternative and complementary health, self development courses and workshops. Provides practitioner and general information.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Society and Culture There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Society and Culture "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Society and Culture If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Society and Culture An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Society and Culture The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Society and Culture blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Society and Culture "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Society and Culture He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Society and Culture "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Society and Culture Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Society and Culture A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Society and Culture "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Society and Culture Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire 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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture
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