Kenny's Bookshop - Renowned bookshop in Galway with Irish language titles and online ordering.
Europus - Language consultancy, translation, and subtitling services.
Thistle and Shamrock Books - Small business offering Celtic language textbooks, dictionaries, and Bibles.
Forbairt Feirste - Company/organization assisting with Irish language jobs.
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-- Soren Kierkegaard I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Business
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Rodney Dangerfield If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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-- Alexander Pope Business
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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-- John Stuart Mill Business
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Business "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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-- Author Unknown Business
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
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-- Simeon Strunsky The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Business
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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- Elbert Hubbard Business Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
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-- Unknown history student Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Business
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-- Paul Ehrlich Business
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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-- Gandhi A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Business
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Business At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- Mark Twain The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Business
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-- Stanislaw J. Lec Never practice two vices at once.
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-- Al Capone Business
