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Doorway To Life (Abode) Ltd. - Providing services to people with physical disabilities since 1986. It is situated in a purpose-built, accessible building on the outskirts of Cork City, Ireland.

Cork City Red Cross - First aid and Red Cross activities in Cork City.

Callan Community - A presentation brothers community in Cork, offers details of the mission, community members, participation programme and background details of the order.

Trinity Presbyterian Cork - Church information includes services schedule, history of the church, and contacts.

Free Presbyterian Church - A Reformed Protestant Church site with articles on Calvinism and the gospel of Christ.

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Society and Culture "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Society and Culture "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Society and Culture Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Society and Culture I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Society and Culture You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Society and Culture "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Society and Culture Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Society and Culture If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Society and Culture All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Society and Culture "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Society and Culture The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Society and Culture "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Society and Culture I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
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