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Scottish Culture - Explore everything from ancient Scottish traditions to the latest news from the auld sod. Includes archaeology, hotels, clans, tartans. From About.com.
Calor Gas Scottish Community of the Year - Annual award scheme for cities, towns, villages and rural communities in Scotland.
Scottish Out of School Care Network (SOSCN) - Site for school-aged childcare and learning sector in Scotland. Information and links for parents, childcare workers and children.
Meeting the Childcare Challenge - The need for a Scottish childcare strategy.
What's Under the Kilt? - A colourful online book providing a flavour of Scotland through the humorous eyes of the world's worst tourist guide - Robin Mitchell. The book touches on ten topics stereotypically associated with the Scots.
Scottish Communities Web Database - A collection of links to village, town, city and region specific community web sites throughout Scotland.
Hogmanay.net - Guide to Hogmanay celebrations around Scotland, plus some background to the tradition.
All About Scotland - Useful historical content and resource.
Simply Scottish Media - Scottish culture, history, tradition, and current events. Includes radio programs, interviews, prize draws, monthly feature collections, resources, and links.
Community Enterprise in Strathclyde - Organisation for the provision of specialist support and development services to social economy organisations in the childcare, housing and local financial services sectors.
What sort of Scotland do we want to live in? - The Millennium debate on Scotland's future - in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. E- Consultation running till 8th October 2001.
Loyalist & Orange Information Services - Listing many aspects of this group including the events and the people that make up its history.
Visitor to Scotland - A directory listing links to sites dealing with Scotland's culture, history and heritage.
AdoptaFarm - Contains stories and information about lambs. Facilities for adoption of lambs together with membership and e-mail contact addresses.
The Society of High Constables of Edinburgh - The Society runs four sports clubs for golf, bowling , angling and curling. An illustrated history and calendar of events.
Bonnie Scotland - Listing information about the country's heritage of humour, invention and food. Features include recipe, biography, galleries, games and forums as well as regular news stories.
The Good People of Scotland - Nomination and voting for Scottish people who, you think have been good ambassadors for their country, have triumphed over adversity or have achieved success.
First Foot - Covers the myth, magic, beliefs and baloney, history, mystery and blistery feet upon the walk of Scottish life that is Hogmanay.
soc.culture.scottish - Guide to Scottish culture and many links to related sites.
International Children's Parliament - Edinburgh based charity that works towards a better understanding and acceptance of the rights of children.
Know the Score - Scotland's drugs information gateway with information on drugs and the effects of drug misuse.
One Scotland Many Cultures - Scottish Executive campaign to raise awareness of racist attitudes. Includes a history of Scottish migration and reports on asylum seekers.
Scotland Against Drugs - Official Scottish anti-drug campaign site.
Scottish Labour History Society - Details the Society's mission statement and provides, news, publications, conference reports, items of interest and contact addresses.
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. 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 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 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Society and Culture To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) 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) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Society and Culture The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy 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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Society and Culture 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 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Society and Culture It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Society and Culture I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Society and Culture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Society and Culture 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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Society and Culture Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Society and Culture If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Society and Culture Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Society and Culture The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Society and Culture A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Society and Culture
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