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Linlithgow and Linlithgow Bridge Children's Gala Day - Information on the children's Gala Day, held in June of each year, and the preparations. The 70th anniversary of the this event was held in 2000.
Whitburn on the Web - Explore the ex-mining town in the heart of Scotland in between Glasgow and Edinburgh. See the people and read the news. Includes pub and hotel guide.
Ecclesmachan Parish - Providing news, information and history of the area. Includes pictures, events, community council, Sue Ryder care, guest-book and contact details.
Disability West Lothian - Highlighting services available in the area for disabled people. Information and advice, transport, access and computers.
Celtic Cousins - Personal webpages listing family history covering from descendants from Scotland, Ireland and Australia. Scottish war memorials also listed.
Deaf Awareness West Lothian - DAWN aims to enable communication between the deaf and hearing communities by teaching British Sign Language and deaf awareness. Providing aims and objectives, meeting details and class information.
4th West Lothian Scout Group - Provides the history of the group and pictures of the area. Information about each of the sections, together with contact addresses is included.
Living Book - Project to enable the housebound, disabled and elderly to see what is on offer within the area through the Internet.
Epilepsy West Lothian - Offers information about the condition, the services and support they offer, and their fundraising.
Saint Michael's Roman Catholic Church - Catholic church in Linlithgow. Mass times, contact details, parish history, parish groups, and parish school.
Linlithgow Civic Trust - Encourages conservation of the town's buildings and natural heritage. Organises publications, talks, visits for members and includes details about spring and summer events and planning issues.
Laetar International Center - A Catholic retreat center in Linlithgow.
Dance Party Disco's - Information on a group for kids aged 5 to 12 that meets at the Kirkliston Community Centre. Includes times, pictures of the staff and DJs, and a meeting schedule for the Gateside Residents Association.
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz Society and Culture It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Society and Culture And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville 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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Society and Culture The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Society and Culture Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin 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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Society and Culture A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Society and Culture You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton "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) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Society and Culture "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Society and Culture Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Society and Culture Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Society and Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Society and Culture "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Society and Culture >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Society and Culture Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture
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