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National Bible Society of Ireland - Local group of an international organisation which, working with all Christian churches, seeks to provide the Bible to all people, in a language they understand and at a price can afford. Overview, news, prayer, resources, giving and products.
Young Christian Workers Ireland - This group provides information about its background, stances and works, as well as press releases, publications, photos and links.
Irish Council of Churches - Briefing paper on Northern Ireland, Irish ecumenical bodies, resources, peace education programme, women's link and church statistics.
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Simone Jr.) Organisations Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Organisations I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Organisations When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. 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(William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Organisations "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Organisations When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. 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