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	The Seamus Ludlow Truth and Justice Campaign. - The Ludlow family's demands for public inquiries in Ireland into the May 1976 sectarian murder of Seamus Ludlow, in County Louth.
	Irish Aid Advisory Committee - Offers advice to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and undertakes research on issues relevant to the Ireland Aid Programme.
	ISPCC - Information on how the Society fosters better relationships between parents and children while promoting better understanding of children's needs.
	Irish Peatland Conservation Council - Information on the bogs and the wildlife they sustain. Take a virtual tour. Become a member.
	The Goal-Aidlink St. Patrick's Day Badge Project - A school project run by students in Blackrock College to help people in the third world.
	The Irish Naturist Association - Contacts, calendar, goals, activities, FAQ and general information. Links to affiliated social clubs.
	Ballymun New Century Development Group - A non-profit community organisation aimed at broadening the consultation process in the regeneration of Ballymun.
	Focus Ireland - Information about the homeless.
	Stop Fluoridation - A network of citizens groups demanding the freedom to choose fluoride free water.
	Burren Action Group - Information on the campaign to stop the development of major visitor facilities at Mullaghmore.
	Earthwatch - Press releases, information on campaigns, background information, images and contact details.
	Éire Shaor - Details of the aims and objectives of the organisation.
	Culture Struggle - Right-wing page.
	Mise Éire - Photo journal of international observer during marching season in Portadown, July, 2000.
	VatCampaign.com - Aims and objectives of the campaign.
	Demutualisation Campaign - Information on a campaign to convert the Irish Nationwide Building Society into a bank and release its reserves to its members.
	The Adopted Peoples Association - Information and resources for Irish adopted people and their natural families, including guides to tracing, the Irish Adoption Contact Register and information on the campaign for open records.
	Bishops' Appeal - Information on appeal working towards ending global poverty.
	Combat Poverty Agency - Information on the agency's role, responsibilities, and activities, as well as information on poverty in Ireland.
	Justice for the Forgotten - An organisation of victims and their relatives, campaigning for an tribunal to investigate these bombings from the 1970s.
	The Murder of Seamus Ludlow in County Louth, May 1976. - The sectarian murder of Seamus Ludlow in 1976 and the Ludlow family's ongoing campaign for truth and justice.

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 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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. - Sir Winston Churchill People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Activism A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken To love another person is to help them love God. -- S�ren Kierkegaard Activism I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Activism Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Activism Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Activism A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Activism "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Activism Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Activism "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Activism What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Activism If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau Activism Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Activism To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Activism "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Activism "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Activism When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Activism "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Activism Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Activism The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Activism The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Activism We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Activism If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." 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