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Paisley Christadelphians - Location of meeting room, times of public meetings, and telephone number for "bible line", a recorded telephone message from the bible.
Mossvale Community Church - A pentecostal fellowship led by Pastor Chalk. The youth, drama group and lively praise band host several youth events each year.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Paisley - Details of current campaigns, information about St Mirin, and religious links.
Thomas Coats Memorial Church - Details of the history of the church, the architecture of the building as well as some sound clips of the church organ. Comment is also given by the Pastor of the Church.
John Neilson School - Website of the John Neilson School, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. A resource for Neilsonians and former JN teachers make contact, to share memories, or to read features about the school.
Paisley North SNP - Scottish National Party Paisley North Constituency. Lists policy, election and activity information.
Saint Peters Church - Catholic church offers mass times, contact details and parish bulletin [PDF].
"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) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Society and Culture When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Society and Culture Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Society and Culture Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Society and Culture He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Society and Culture What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Society and Culture Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Society and Culture To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Society and Culture People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels 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 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Society and Culture Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Society and Culture The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain 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 nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Society and Culture "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Society and Culture "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Society and Culture "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture
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