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The Scots Home Page - Personal pages site with some information about Dundee, some links and a few pictures.
Hillside Students - A site on 16 out going students studying at Abertay University Dundee.
Dundee Cyrenians - Christian organisation aiding the homeless. Includes services and projects, administrative and contact information.
TWINE - Youth Issues Project in Dundee, includes free personal development programme for youths.
Victim Support in Tayside - Victim Support in Tayside provides free, confidential and independent support to victims of crime throughout Tayside.
Jordan's Time - Support group in memory of Jordan and to educate the world on the organ retention and removal scandal.
Gay Men's Health Tayside - A peer-driven organisation which provides HIV prevention and safer sex outreach services.
Circles Around Dundee - Helping people with learning difficulties and/or autism reach their goals in life. Lists aims and objects, management details, planning and example of one of the methods used.
Dundee & District Pre-Retirement Council - Aiming to help all retiree, senior and mature citizens to remain healthy and happy, assisting with midlife and retirement planning. Course, planning and Council details are included.
Maritime History of Dundee - An informative guide to seagoing history of Dundee and Tayside. Includes historical records, notable personages of the past, interactive maps, online tours, news and current project information.
The Tay Bridge Disaster - Tom Martin's analysis of the causes of the Tay Bridge disaster.
Volunteer Centre Dundee - Find out about volunteering, become a volunteer, recruit or recommend to others. Access information, link to national and International sites.
Dundee Local Exchange and Trading System - Provides information about the organization, FAQ's and a directory of participating members.
Youth Link - Providing help and support to the young people of the City. Lists the various sections of the organisation and the way in which it can help.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Society and Culture Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Society and Culture "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Society and Culture More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Society and Culture "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Society and Culture Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Society and Culture "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) 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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Society and Culture Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
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