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Carnmore.Net - Local news and information from this rural village, with sports and schools notes, details of the ladies club, history, health notes and a message board and photo gallery.
Galway Hospice Foundation, Renmore - Service information, volunteering, history and profile, FAQ, details of education and fundraising activities, a recruitment area and contact details are presented.
St. Patrick's Church, Glenamaddy - Both Flash and non-Flash presentations, featuring weekly parish news, history, historic church features including the famous Harry Clarke windows, priests and contact details.
Loughrea Town and Clostoken Parish - Parish history, town profile, with sport, food and drink links.
The Galway Rose - Gives details and results of the competition.
Croí - West of Ireland Cardiology Foundation - Established for the education, research and the development of cardiac services and facilities.
Macnas - History of performance company, what's on and location details.
The Galway ArtSite - Showcase for local artists includes gallery, artist information and a forum.
Galway Information Sharing Network - An information resource for voluntary and statutory groups and service organisations throughout Galway.
A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen Society and Culture "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Society and Culture "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Society and Culture Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Society and Culture If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "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 Society and Culture At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Society and Culture "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Society and Culture Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Society and Culture For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture
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