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Elinor Predota - Interfaith minister and spiritual counsellor providing details of creative ceremonies, spiritual counselling, courses and support groups. Postal, telephone and e-mail contact addresses included.
Baha'i Council for Scotland - Providing council information, news, events, youth pages, Island contacts and details about the Maxwell School.
Humanist Society of Scotland - Seeks to represent those who adopt a non-religious, but ethical stance to life. Explains the role and purpose of the Humanisits, includes a contact page and links.
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Religion I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Religion Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger Religion No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Religion "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Religion "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Religion "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Religion Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Religion Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Religion Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Religion Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Religion The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Religion "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Religion "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Religion Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Religion Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Religion "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous 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? Religion Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Religion Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Religion Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Religion We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Religion Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Religion
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