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Craigmillar Community Information Service - Community based team project, situated on the east side of Edinburgh, with the remit of providing information network services to the local community.
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh - Self-funded campaign and social centre, against social, economic and ecological injustice and expolitation. Information, events and contact details.
The Quad - George Heriots school reunion pages. Includes stories, pictures, events and links to other related sites.
Ainsbiosach - Information and photographs of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Bisexual Group - A friendly weekly meeting of bisexuals in Edinburgh. Also run a UK Bisexual Phone Line offering advice every Thursday evening.
Stevens, Paul - Currently a research fellow with the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh University. Information on biomagnetics, parapsychology and personal information.
Senoir Action Group Edinburgh - Campaigning for the rights of Older people in residential homes in and around Edinburgh,Scotland
Scottish Family Research - Scottish genealogy articles, discussion group and free genealogy query forum.
Thomas Turnbull - Homepage, with travels, home, university, CV.
Corstorphine Online - Edinburgh based internet service bringing the internet to the local community of Corstorphine. Local information, goods and services.
Cruelty Free Information about Edinburgh - Guide to vegetarian and vegan restaurants and shops plus vegetarian and vegan friendly accommodation and information on other aspects of vegan lifestyle.
Edinburgh: A Personal View - Personal site with views of the city and a chance to comment.
Convent of Mercy - Sisters of Mercy of the Union of Great Britain. details of the work carried out and the Mercy Centre and Homeless Project.
Edinburgh & District Group of Advanced Motorists - Local motoring and road safety organisation. Providing help for motorists achieve the standard of driving necessary to pass the Institutes driving test.
Parachute Regimental Association (Lothian Branch) - A Branch website for Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces veterans living in the Lothians. History, Roll of Honour, news and views.
Edinburgh's Hogmanay - The official website for Edinburgh's Hogmanay. Details of this year's programme, how to get tickets, where to stay, and what Hogmanay is all about.
Robert Burns Monument - Illustrated contemporary description of the construction of the monument to Robert Burns in Edinburgh.
Stewart Tartan Boy - Full of useful, and not so useful programs. Gallery, links and Fourth Bridge information.
Marions World - A good fun site with a wee bit of insight into our lovely country.
All Things Great Danes - Offer a breed information, show results, puppy pictures and contact details.
Edinburgh On The Web - Local community site for with news, links, message boards, classifieds, whats on calendar, weather and general information.
Ian Mckee SNP - Edinburgh central candidate for the Scottish National Party. Questions and answers on politics and manifesto.
Conrad's Digital Domain - Conrad's personal web page that includes games and programs, music and literature.
Enlighten - Registered charity operating in Edinburgh to support people directly or indirectly affected by epilepsy. Includes details of their services, training and education activities.
Edinburgh Anarchist Studies Group - Site provides info on local group for people who are active in research or theory to discuss their work and/or ideas in relation to anarchism. It also includes recommended reading and links to resources.
Trevor Mendham - Personal site of Trevor Mendham, writer and civil liberties campaigner living in Edinburgh.
Edinburgh and District Shetland Association - Caters for the Shetland community, running ceilidh dances in Leith Town Hall and events with a Shetland flavour. Members and friends welcome to come along.
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Society and Culture An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Society and Culture I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Society and Culture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Society and Culture "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Society and Culture Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra Society and Culture I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Society and Culture The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Society and Culture 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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Society and Culture Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Society and Culture Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Society and Culture "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Society and Culture
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