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Clare County Library - Easy-to-navigate site with guides to library services, branch libraries, Clare history and other information.
West Clare Railway Preservation - A group which is restoring a section of the WCR permanent way, and preserving any locos, carriages and documentation which relate to the infamous little railway.
Clare County Library - Community and library information; includes useful genealogical information plus a details of historical figures in the county.
Clare County Childcare Committee - provides information and supports the underpinning of county wide local networks and childcare support agencies. Including training, health and safety, child rights, special needs and creches.
Clare Animal Welfare - Creates awareness and offers support to individuals and groups who are concerned about animal welfare in the Clare community.
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Society and Culture More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Society and Culture He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Society and Culture Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Society and Culture He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Society and Culture I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Society and Culture I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Society and Culture Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Society and Culture To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley "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 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Society and Culture "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Society and Culture I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Society and Culture Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi 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 "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 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Society and Culture I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Society and Culture
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