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	The National Symphony Orchestra - Information on forthcoming events, conductors, administration, orchestral members and a discrography.
	Classical Music Ireland - Supplier of classical musicians for weddings and other functions provides brief notes on their services, string shop and bow service.
	The Dolmen String Quartet - West of Ireland-based classical string quartet available for weddings and special occasions gives information on its history, members, music and booking arrangements.
	Irish Chamber Orchestra - Information on artistic and administrative members, concerts, tour plans, discography, reviews, education programme and Friends programme.
	Irish Classical Music Guide - National guide to news, listings, events, performers, festivals and organisations.
	Dublin Orchestral Players - Provides a history of the group from 1940, lists of players and officers, concert diary and a catalogue of performances since 1970.
	Crescendo - Details on this classical string quartet include players, sample works played, rates, a sound sample and a query/ booking form.
	The Vanburgh String Quartet - This classical music performing group provide notes on their history, performances and CDs, with playable samples, contact details, notes on their scholarship fund and a page with special offers on direct orders of their recordings.
	The Hibernian Orchestra - This Dublin orchestra, playing a wide range of chamber and symphonic works, presents its history and repertoire, lists of players, soloists and conductors, notes on forthcoming events, images of key venues and an e-mail directory for other musicians in Ireland.
	West Cork Music - Details the activities of this group, including their annual international event, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, fundraising arrangements and their masterclasses for young musicians.
	RTÉ Concert Orchestra - This major Irish professional orchestra provides details of its members, conductors, discography, events and samples of playing.
	Serenata String Quartet - Irish string quartet offering a wide repertoire of music from classical to pop provide player profiles, notes for weddings and corporate events, details of repertoire and an enquiry/ booking form.
	University of Limerick Orchestra - Homepage of the UL Orchestra - concerts, photos, programmes.
	Irish Baroque Orchestra - Ireland's only professional period-instrument orchestra, with news, concert listings, reviews, sponsors, links and contact information.
	National Youth Orchestra of Ireland - Details of the organisation, its two orchestras, past programmes and recent repertoire, future plans, CD samples and audition information.
	Czech Strings Quartet & Trio - Music for social and corporate events in Ireland and North Ireland. Background music, studio work, or concerts.

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Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Classical I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Classical Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Classical We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S 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 Classical "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Classical What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (Fran�ois VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Classical Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Classical "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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Classical "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) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Classical What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Classical "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Classical "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Classical You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford "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) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Classical "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Classical You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. 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