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Meath Heritage Centre - With a large stock of local material, offers a record search service, for which a form is provided, and details of resources and publications.

Sisters of Sion in Ireland - This small Catholic community based in Bellinter House, Navan, present their order, vocation and association notes, details of their conference centre facilities and contact information. Available in large-print and text-only forms.

Dunboyne Combined Residents Association - Featuring local news, including a newsletter, a directory of politicians, weather and local links.

Third Age Active Retirement Group, Summerhill - This association and its centre for retired older people and senior citizens are profiled, with contact information, activities, a helpline available nationally and location/ contact information.

Dunsany - The official site of the Dunsany family and Lord Dunsany provides information on the novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet Lord Dunsany, with some unique family material. There is also material on Dunsany Castle and other family members, as well as e-mail to the author's descendents.

Enfield District Information Service - Community support information service providing links to local information for residents and people thinking of moving to Enfield. The site promotes tourism, local history and the Enfield business community and includes a map and access information.

Save Tara-Skryne Valley - Campaign to save the archaeologically rich valley between the hills of Skryne and Tara from the M3 motorway that has been approved. Articles and reports on the plan and campaign details.

Meath Sinn Fein - Details of this branch, its team and public statements.

Meadowbank Hill Residents Association - Profile of this representative and management body for an estate in Ratoath, with newsletters, and listings of local business and community services.

"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. Society and Culture I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Society and Culture Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Society and Culture I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Society and Culture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Society and Culture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh "... 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) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Society and Culture The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau "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) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Society and Culture Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Society and Culture Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Society and Culture Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Society and Culture Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Society and Culture Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Society and Culture We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Society and Culture
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