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Eddie Ingram's Homepage - All about a retired Police Sergeant from Inverness in Scotland.
Highland Think Net - Policy forum for the Scottish Highlands and Islands.
Nessie's Grotto - Loch Ness Monster and other lake monsters around the world. History, culture, biology, geology, geography, myth, saints, vikings, Jacobites, sightings, recent scientific research.
Royal British Legion - Covers the area from Shetland to Fort William and the Western Isles to Lossiemouth. Lists area sports, meetings, officials, branch news and pension details.
Reach Out Highland - Based in Inverness. Advocates for sexual health and wellbeing. HIV Charity providing education, information, counselling, testing, and support.
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Society and Culture Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Society and Culture Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Society and Culture Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Society and Culture I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Society and Culture Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Society and Culture It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Society and Culture Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "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) Society and Culture Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Society and Culture Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Society and Culture blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Society and Culture Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Society and Culture 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 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait Society and Culture 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. Andre Gide Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture
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