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Peoples Church - Includes news, weekly schedule, pastor information and location map.
Brightons - The village changes in the Brightons area of Falkirk.
Tryst Action Group - Campaigns against the development of houses on the Falkirk Tryst Golf Course.
Falkirk Today - Community site for the Falkirk Council area in Central Scotland (Falkirk, Grangemouth, Boness, Larbert, Bonnybridge, Polmont, Denny, Stenhousemuir, Linlithgow, Redding and Airth).
Falkirk and District Arts and Civic Council - Open to groups who are engaged in artistic activities such as arts, theatre and music societies.
Bowhouse Dog Training Club - Obedience training for K9's and their handlers in Grangemouth.
The Tryst Theatre - Information on this amateur drama group. Includes details of future and previous productions, booking information and contact details.
Castle Cary - Information and history of a scottish tower house built in 1478 from stone taken from the nearby Roman fort on the Antonine Wall.
Sounds Of Music - A music group that meets informally, for adults interested in mental health issues, focusing on the social benefits of music and friendship.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Society and Culture "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Society and Culture This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Society and Culture If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Society and Culture A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Society and Culture The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Society and Culture Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Society and Culture Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Society and Culture "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton 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? "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Society and Culture Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Society and Culture Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Society and Culture Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V Society and Culture I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Society and Culture Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture
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