Connaught Fleadh Festival - Traditional Irish music festival held in a different town in Connaught every year, there will be musical competitions and concerts.
Smithwicks Source - Annual festival that takes place over one weekend in Kilkenny. Featuring legendery artists that are a source of (iconic) music.
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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-- Proverbs 23:7 Festivals
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-- Anonymous Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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-- Shane Leslie Festivals The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
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-- Oscar Wilde They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
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-- Thomas Jefferson Festivals
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Festivals
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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-- Caroline Rhea That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
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-- Conway's Law Festivals If we don't change the direction we are going,
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-- Chinese saying "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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-- Oscar Wilde The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Festivals "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Festivals We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Festivals
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Festivals The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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-- Albert Einstein Festivals
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-- Thomas Jefferson The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Festivals
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
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-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Festivals These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Festivals
