Kratz Family in Scotland - Photographs by David Kratz of his family and of the Scottish Highlands, especially of the Ross-shire area within a radius of fifteen miles of Tain but including an increasing number of places further afield.
Saint John Ogilvie - Catholic parish serving Easter Ross with Mass centers in the towns of Tain, Alness and Invergordon. Mass times, contact details, parish history, parish news, bulletin.
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give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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-- Aristotle Society and Culture
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-- Virginia Woolf History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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-- Margo Kaufman Society and Culture
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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- Robert Orben Society and Culture Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
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-- John Heisman Society and Culture
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
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- Albert Einstein I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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- J. Paul Getty Society and Culture
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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-- Peter DeVries Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
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-- Abbie M. Dale Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Joseph Addison One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Society and Culture Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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-- William Faulkner You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Society and Culture "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Society and Culture
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
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