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UCD Students' Union - The online Students Union website of UCD provides information about its activities and events as well as its services and advice, links and resources
Union of Students in Ireland - National representative body for students in Ireland, lobbying the Government on services and supports for students in third level education and campaigning on issues such as better maintenance grants, accommodation, rights of international, women students, LGB and disabled students.
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(Ani Difranco) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Student Unions I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns Student Unions I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." 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Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Student Unions You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West Student Unions Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Student Unions "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Student Unions "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Student Unions We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Student Unions
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