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Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney - The Anglican diocese covering north-east Scotland. Includes details of parishes on the Shetland Islands, as well as Aberdeen cathedral.
Islesburgh Community Centre - Community complex in Shetland for young people. Site also covers Lerwick Youth Hostel and the Garrison Theatre.
Lerwick Radio Club - Based in Lerwick's Islesburgh Community Centre. Call sign GM3ZET is equipped for all Band operations from HF to UHF. Club meets from 7:30pm on Thursday evenings.
Shetland Family History Society - For researching the history and genealogy of families in the Shetland Isles.
Shetland Friends of the Earth - Run regular meetings and events campaigning on local environmental issues.
Lerwick Town Centre Management Group - Details the groups achievements to date and related council policies. It also lists shops and businesses, provides map-based information and events in the town.
Baha'i Community - Includes an introduction to the Baha'i Faith, history of the local community, local calendar of events, and picture gallery.
FWBO Buddhist Group - Offers fortnightly meditation classes and other occasional events in Lerwick.
Lunnasting History Group - Local and family history, family trees, genealogy, archaeology, photographs, collections and artefacts for the area of Vidlin.
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Society and Culture I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Society and Culture If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be Society and Culture Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Society and Culture "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Society and Culture I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Society and Culture The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Society and Culture Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Society and Culture My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Society and Culture I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Society and Culture 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 Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Society and Culture "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Society and Culture More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Society and Culture
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