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RSPB Edinburgh Area Members Group - Includes details of indoor and outdoor meetings and events plus contact and membership information.
LEEP - Charity aimed at creating solutions to environmental problems and the alleviation of poverty and disadvantage.
UNISON City of Edinburgh Branch - Trade union organisation.
Edinburgh Community Trust - Organisation in Scotland's capital setting up "social firms" to provide work and training for people with mental health problems. Typical businesses include catering, laundering, clothes making.
The Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home - History of the centre, pet care, how to donate or adopt a pet.
Bethany Christian Trust - Homeless charity in Edinburgh, also deals with addiction issues.
Murrayfield Community Council - Serving the communities of Belford, Belmont, Coltbridge, Craigleith, Glendevon, Murrayfield, Ravelston, Roseburn, Saughtonhall and Wester Coates. Mission statement, meetings calendar, minutes and contact details.
Institut Français d'Ecosse - The French Institute offers music, theatre, exhibitions, language courses and library.
Volunteer Centre Edinburgh - Find volunteering opportunities doing almost anything, anywhere in Edinburgh. The site also includes comprehensive resources for volunteer organisers.
Home Link Befriending - Provides personal support to families with young children who are experiencing difficulties. Volunteer opportunities to care for other members of your community in South Edinburgh and Midlothian.
Malleny Angling Association - An association that exists to promote and protect the fishing in the Threipmuir and Harlaw reservoirs.
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(Minna Antrim) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Organisations When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Organisations The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Organisations All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Organisations "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Organisations 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 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Organisations Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Man and wife make one fool. 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 Organisations "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Organisations 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 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Organisations Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Organisations The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. 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