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McAdie and Reeve - Island specialist for removals, storage and haulage.
John Corse Funeral Services - Details of this family-run business based in Kirkwall.
NorthStar New Media - Multimedia company based in the Orkney Islands (Northern Scotland) that develops dynamic web sites, multimedia CDs and 3D terrain visualizations.
Orkney Aggregates - Suppliers of quarry materials, ready mix cement and precast concrete products.
Orkney Brewery - Brewery based at Stromness, and brewing a range of cask, keg and bottled beers, including 'Dark Island'. Lists Company and product information, location and brewing awards.
John Kemp Embroidery - Providing Company information, designs, garments and mail order details.
Lilco Broadband Current Transformers. - Wideband current probes, transformers and monitors for the isolated measurement of irregular current waveforms. 0.1Hz to 100MHz, 10mA to 50kA
Stan Pyke - Building contractor and glass merchant.
Orkney Stained Glass - Specialising in painting and stained glass work. Accommodation and meals are also available.
Lovatt Textiles - Cushions and gifts from Orkney in a range of designs and fabrics.
Clackson Partners - Language bureau offering German/English translating and interpreting services. Listing services, terms and conditions.
Orkney Car Hire - Car rental offering daily rates and listing fleet information and rates, terms and conditions together with Company information.
Seabridge Consultants - Consultants specialising in management consulting, project management, design and marketing.
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Business and Economy The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Business and Economy The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Business and Economy Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Business and Economy The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Business and Economy Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Business and Economy "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart May you never leave your marriage alive. Business and Economy "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Business and Economy Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Business and Economy A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Business and Economy "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Business and Economy Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Business and Economy Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Business and Economy Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Business and Economy Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Business and Economy Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Business and Economy "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Business and Economy 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 "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) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Business and Economy Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Business and Economy Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
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