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Japan - Tokyo - Embassy of Ireland in Tokyo, featuring a section on Saint Patrick's Day.
South Korea - Seoul - The combined website of the Embassy of Ireland to Korea, the Industrial Development Agency of Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, which are all located in Ireland House, Seoul.
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay - Irish Embassy in Buenos Aires, accredited to Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay. Has information about the acquisition of Irish citizenship, and about trade and commercial matters.
Netherlands - The Hague - Embassy of Ireland to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with information for Irish people in The Netherlands on passports, moving and activities, and for people looking for information about travelling to Ireland.
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Abroad We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Abroad When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Abroad The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Abroad "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Abroad "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Abroad In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Abroad Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Abroad "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 depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Abroad Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Abroad "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Abroad "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Abroad Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Abroad The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Abroad My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Abroad "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) 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) Abroad Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Abroad I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "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) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Abroad My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Abroad Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Abroad A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Abroad Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler Abroad
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