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	A Guide to the Isle of Skye - A personal view of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, in words and pictures.
	My Skyepix - A personal digital photo diary of life on the Isle of Skye, my home and garden, and the Broadford Community.
	Diana Mackie - Contemporary landscape artisto offering oil paintings inspired by the Isle of Skye. Includes a gallery of works and contact information.
	Skye Kin - Offering searches, research, family trees, help and advice covering West Skye - Duirinish: Dunvegan, Edinbane, Glendale, Waternish and all places in between.
	Skye and Lochalsh Bahá'í Community - A portrait of a small island Bahá'í community. The site also contains a selection of articles from "Dayspring", the UK's children's Bahá'í magazine, a selection of material from the publications of the Association for Bahá'í Studies (English Speaking Europe), Bahá'í Writings in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, and other material.
	SKAT - Skye Bridge anti tolls protests - Skye & Kyle Against the Tolls, Skye Bridge anti tolls protests, fighting the unjust, extortionate toll charged on the private bridge to the Isle of Skye.
	Glendale Community - Contains news, views, accommodation, local information and recipes.
	Skye Windfarm Action Group - Group protesting about windfarm development.
	Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church - Portree, Isle of Skye. Mass times, directions, weekly bulletin, contact details, photo album of past parish events, parish history, prayer of the church's consecration.
	Skye Roots - Family history, genealogy and research services and information for North East areas of Skye and Raasay.
	Chris Tyler - West Highland Free Press cartoonist. Provides personal profile, contact addresses and a catalogue of his cartoons.
	Dunvegan Church of Scotland - Information on the parish, worship services, and congregational life.
	Edinbane Community - Provides information on, and promotea the village of Edinbane and the surrounding community.

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic Society and Culture Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain 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 Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Society and Culture Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler 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) 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 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Society and Culture You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Society and Culture The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Society and Culture "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Society and Culture Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Society and Culture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Society and Culture It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Society and Culture A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Society and Culture To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- Fran�ois de La Rouch The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Society and Culture In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. 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