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Society and Culture Links

	The Killin Web Site - The community web site created by the local residents.
	Volunteer Development Scotland - The national centre for volunteering and community action.
	Balquhidder, Lochearnhead and Strathyre - Community website for the locality. Accommodation, business and community information.
	Kippen - Information about the village nestling between the Gargunnock and Fintry hills and overlooking the valley of the River Forth, the village of Kippen commands enviable views over some of Scotlands finest scenery.
	Dunblane Cathedral - A beautiful medieval church now home to a congregation of 1200 and serving the community of Dunblane in central Scotland.
	Central Scotland Parishes Family History Project - A unified data resource of family trees from Central Scotland.
	Elton, Matthew - I work mainly on issues within the philosophy of mind, with a particular interest in how disciplines such as psychology, ethology, artificial intelligence, and artificial life can illuminate our understanding of what it is to be a rational, self-conscious agent.
	Stirlingshire ScotlandGenWeb - Comprises mailing lists, GenConnect boards, archives, local resources and clan information.
	Killearn - Village and parish nestled under the Campsie Fells in West Central Scotland.
	Stirling Baptist Church - Offering a 360 Panoramic view of the church and details about weekly worships. Ministries, information and contact addresses included.
	Dunblane Christian Fellowship - Providing history, vision, home groups and general information about this group.
	Gartmore Village - Information for residents and visitors for the community of Gartmore. Details of the various clubs and societies.
	Paraig Macneil - Storyteller mostly in English/Scots/Gaelic or a mixture of all. Tales of the Fianna, clan legends, histories and genealogies.
	Callander Youth Project - Information and advice for young people in Callander and the surrounding rural area.
	Lodge Bannockburn Bruce and Thistle No.312 - Includes information about the organisation along with office bearers and members.
	Provincial Grand Lodge of Stirlingshire - Includes information about the organisation along with office bearers and members.
	Killearn Community Council - Meetings, noticeboard and village directory.
	Aberlour Child Care Trust - A Scottish charity providing residential and community based services for some of Scotland's most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Details, how to help, and news.
	Scottish History Genealogy True Identity - Original and true history of the Scottish people - The Roots and Blood of the Scots
	The Jaggy Thistle - Satirical ezine looking at many aspects of Scottish politics, sport and culture.
	Forth Environment Link - A charity involved with environmental education and resources in the Central Scotland area.
	Source of Hope - Christian church which began as a home Bible study. Provides biblical references, information about the chapel and contact addresses.
	Scottish Family Trace - Genealogical research and family trace service for Scottish families, ancestors and descendants.
	Stuarts City of Stirling - Personal web pages providing photographs and details of local places and monuments of interest.
	Calvary Chapel - Details of a weekly Bible study group. Contact information.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Society and Culture Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Society and Culture "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Society and Culture Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Society and Culture "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Society and Culture "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Society and Culture History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Society and Culture A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Society and Culture I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- Andr� Maurois Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Society and Culture Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Society and Culture The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Society and Culture Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Society and Culture I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "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) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Society and Culture >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Society and Culture I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra Society and Culture In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Society and Culture For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Society and Culture Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." 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