Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney - The Anglican diocese for north-east Scotland. Includes details of parishes in this area, as well as Aberdeen cathedral.
Orkney Islands Genealogy - The family heritage of the Orkney Islands. Includes a comprehensive listing of births, baptisms and marriages for Orcadian surnames.
Skara Brae - Evidence is presented for Skara Brae having been settled by Ancient Egyptian Priest Astronomers around 4000BC.
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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-- John Powell Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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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
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
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-- Mark Twain Society and Culture The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Society and Culture Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Society and Culture
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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-- Charles Pierce Society and Culture Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- Oscar Wilde The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
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-- Roger Babson Society and Culture When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Marcel Achard The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Society and Culture
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Society and Culture I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "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) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Society and Culture "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
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-- Pearl Williams Society and Culture
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Society and Culture A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Society and Culture
