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	Pavee Point - An organisation supporting human rights for Irish Travelling People, working for solidarity, social justice and development. It works with Roma and Gypsy groups, and has an interest in work against racism and for women. The site contains a good range of information and photos.
	Senior Traveller Training Centres - Centre aims is to provide Travellers with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to successfully make the transition to work and adult life, and to participate fully in their communities.

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(Benjamin Franklin) Travellers Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Travellers Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Travellers There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Travellers A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "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, Alice in Wonderland Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Travellers Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Travellers Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Travellers I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Travellers "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Travellers I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Travellers We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Travellers "Think off-center." (George Carlin) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Travellers A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travellers Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Travellers Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Travellers Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Travellers "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Travellers If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Travellers Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Travellers 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 "Courage is found in unlikely places." 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