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Breadalbane.com - Community site dedicated to information on the Highland Perthshire community of Kenmore, Acharn and their surrounds. Including all relevant accommodation and activity links.
Dunning Parish Historical Society - Scottish village society researching and preserving local history. The site contains graveyard and census records useful to anyone searching their roots, as well as interesting items about St Serf's church and Maggie Wall, who was burnt as a witch.
Fortingall - Images of this picturesque Scottish village with short historical notes.
The Annals of Kinross-shire - The complete text from one of two 19th century books, written by Dr Ebenezer Henderson, detailing the history of Kinross-shire, from earliest times to the 19th century.
Perth and Kinross Tenants and Residents Federation - Aims to advise, assist and provide an information service to the residents of the district. Lists aims and objectives, accociations, news and associated links.
Perthshire Diary - Presents the history of the Scottish county of Perthshire in 365 daily lessons. Includes links and references.
Tombreck Action Group - Support group formed to enable the Highland Perthshire hill farm to become productive and self-supporting in terms of housing, employment and land use. Includes Action Plan.
The Perth Blog - Davy Mitchell's weblog covers local news, events and sport.
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Society and Culture When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Society and Culture Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Society and Culture Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Society and Culture Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene Society and Culture Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Society and Culture I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Society and Culture "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Society and Culture The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de Society and Culture I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Society and Culture Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Society and Culture "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton "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 "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers 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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Society and Culture Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Society and Culture
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