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Strathclyde Police - The area's law enforcement.
Pollokshields Heritage - A community organisation serving the UK's first planned garden suburb.
Glasgow Network of Aligned Sites - A web site that shows the pattern of prehistoric sites around Glasgow and is a resource for anyone interested in the city's past, including walkers and archaeologists.
Alliance Française de Glasgow - Promoting a knowledge of French language and culture. Offers accredited and conversational language courses, a library, and community meetings.
Glasgow IVC - A self run sports, leisure and social club for graduates and young professionals in the West of Scotland area
NoMeanCity - Glasgow culture, chat, news and love; and they say they'll publish your work (if it's any good)!
Glasgow Womens Library - Just off the Trongate, this women-only library contains books, music and artwork by and about women as well as the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre.
Lobey Dosser by Bud Neill - The archetypal Glasgow culture cartoon strip.
Glasgow Green Party - Local branch of the Scottish Green Party - focusing upon the environment and social justice.
Sandbaggers Gobi Challenge 2003 - Aiming to raise £50,000 for the Brain Tumor Research Foundation at the Beatson Oncology Centre, the sandbaggers team will cross the Mongolian Gobi Desert in 2003.
Flourish House - A community based rehabilitation project for people experiencing severe or enduring mental health problems - Clubhouse located in the Woodlands area of Glasgow.
The Polish Social and Educational Society - Polish connections in Glasgow. Where to go to try a taste of Poland. Newsletter and information pages.
Glasgow Go Club - Club dedicated to the oldest known board game in the world.
Yokeronline - Photographs, opinions, and a local directory.
Drumchapel Online - Community resource focusing on employment, business, education, housing, recreation, health, and young people. Other features include a community organisations directory, and a "what's on" listing.
The Glasgow and South Western Railway Association - Society formed to promote interest in, and to promote the acquisition and preservation of all items and information relating to the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
Strathaven Town - Community pages containing information and photographs of this Lanarkshire place.
Glasgow Alliance - A partnership organisation concerned with the regeneration of the City and its communities. Listing strategy and community information, related news and contact details.
Geological Society of Glasgow - An open association of amateur and professional geologists centred on the University of Glasgow - lectures, field excursions, membership form.
Move On Ltd - Helping the homeless to help themselves - support, advice, information, training and guidance to homeless people.
Glasgow Fiddle Workshop - Information pages for current and prospective members of this organisation.
Whiteinch - Personal view of this suburb and includes information on churches, landmarks, origins, schools, railways and other details.
Dalmarnock Primary School - Offering a contact point for former pupils. Listing information and photographs from the 1950's.
Emmaus in Glasgow - A self-supporting business run by a community of homeless people. Information on the services provided.
Go Bike - Strathclyde Cycle Campaign - Exists to lobby authorities for better conditions for cycling, also organises regular cycle rides. Includes news, meetings and contact details.
Cernach Housing Association limited - Located in Drumchapel and focusing on the acquisition, construction, improvement and management of houses at affordable cost for people in housing need. Lists information related to these aims and objectives.
Local News for Southsiders - Glasgow - News and events updated monthly. Site also features a forum/message board and movie "tours" of Govan and Gorbals.
Castlemilk Community Forum - Provides online information and news for the residents of Castlemilk. Includes background information and details of the community members involved.
Glasgow Economic Facts - Social and economic information, provided by Glasgow City Council and Scottish Enterprise.
Greater Easterhouse Council of Voluntary Organisations (GECVO) - A recognised charity offering services, information and assistance to volunteer and community groups. Greater Easterhouse area of Glasgow, Scotland.
Eastend Connected - Organisation created to improve community access to information technology across the East End of Glasgow.
Glasgow Young Scot - Local pages of this organization presenting information and links for the area.
Yorkhill Children's Foundation - Fund raising body aiming to improve children's health by providing services and equipment for the Yorkhill NHS Trust Hospitals. Details of appeal, and past successes.
Glasgow Vegan Network - Promoting vegan lifestyle.
Epilepsy Connections - A community-based support to people living with epilepsy in the Greater Glasgow area, offering information, education, befriending and support services.
North Glasgow Partnership - Information on Milton Social Inclusion Partnership (SIP). Providing group and local information together with details of how to get involved.
Dinnie World - Offering details of the family tree. Also included are details of the athlete Donald Dinnie and information about Cambuslang.
The Annexe Healthy Living Centre. - Provides location, activities and facilities information for this community centre located in Partick.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Society and Culture Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Society and Culture "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "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 Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Society and Culture 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 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Society and Culture "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Society and Culture We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) 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 Society and Culture Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau "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) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Society and Culture "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V Society and Culture Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Society and Culture Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Society and Culture If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Society and Culture "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Society and Culture "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Society and Culture Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
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