Permanent Defence Forces Other Ranks Representative Association (PDFORRA) - The professional association representing almost 9,000 enlisted Army, Naval Service and Air Corps personnel on a range of issues, including pay and conditions. Offers news, information pages, mailing list and message board.
Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (RDFRA) - Representing the interests of all levels within the Irish Reserve Defence Forces (FCA and Slua Muiri). Includes background and policy documents, news (including negotiations), a calendar, guestbook and contacts.
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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-- Groucho Marx It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus Military Representative Bodies Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
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- George Bernard Shaw Military Representative Bodies Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
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-- Fran Lebowitz The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Never moon a werewolf.
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Military Representative Bodies Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
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-- Theodore Sturgeon Military Representative Bodies
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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Military Representative Bodies
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military Representative Bodies "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Military Representative Bodies
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Military Representative Bodies Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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