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BBC Scotland - Edfest - Edfest - A guide to the Edinburgh festival from BBC Scotland. Visit Edfest for all the information you need about the Edinburgh Festival, from free tickets, quizzes and the festival preview service, to the daily reports and Edinburgh guide.
The Edinburgh Military Tattoo - Details of this annual festival of music, ceremony, entertainment, and theatre. Includes video and picture galleries, programme and ticket information, plus details of local accommodation and ammenities.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The official site, for over 50 years Scotland's capital city has seen a unique explosion of creative energy within the Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world.
Edinburgh International Festival - Contains a history of this 50 year old festival, plus listings of the events programme, press information, and contact details. Also includes an online merchandise store.
Edinburgh Mela - Details of this annual multicultural arts festival that celebrates the diverse cultures in Scotland.
International Festival of the Sea 2003 - A maritime celebration tracing our relationship with the sea both past and present. Edinburgh is hosting the festival for the fourth time.
Edinburgh International Science Festival - Annual event in early April includes events and shows relating to science and technology. Features exhibitions, workshops, tours, talks, demonstrations and hands-on activities, all aimed at the general public.
Edinburgh Festivals - Official online listings for every Edinburgh Festival.
Edinburgh International Harp Festival - Details of classes, workshops, concerts and events, with profiles of participating artists. Contact and booking information.
Guardian Special Report: Edinburgh Festival - Lots of reviews and previews, news, features and comment about the international festival and The Fringe. Includes links to venues, city guides and other festival sites.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival - Annual festival of films from around the world - held in August. Online programmes and ticket sale information.
The Gateway to Edinburgh's Festivals - The official site for Edinburgh's Festivals. Includes details of the following festivals; International, Film, Book, Science and Children's, Fringe, Book, Hogmanay.
Assembly Rooms - Fringe venue with photo archive, booking details for visiting companies and programmes from previous years.
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It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Edinburgh Festivals ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Edinburgh Festivals "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Edinburgh Festivals There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell 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 Edinburgh Festivals Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Edinburgh Festivals The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Edinburgh Festivals MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Edinburgh Festivals blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Edinburgh Festivals Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 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 Edinburgh Festivals Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Edinburgh Festivals They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Edinburgh Festivals Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Edinburgh Festivals To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins "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) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Edinburgh Festivals The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along Edinburgh Festivals
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