Mirrorball - Gay night club celebrating camp classics from the Twentieth Century. Offers dates of venues and dance.
Waterford Treasures - View some of Waterford's treasures online. Information about the exhibition, opening hours and links.
Christ Church Cathedral of Waterford - A United Diocese church. Includes history, service times, newsletter, photos, restoration information, and location. The church is the only Neo-Classical Georgian Cathedral in Ireland.
IrelandGenWeb: County Waterford - Historical overview, surnames and principal families, plus mailing list and message boards for genealogical information.
Rotary Club of Waterford - Membership organisation provides meeting schedule, club officials and member programmes.
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-- Buddha Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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-- Leonardo da Vinci Society and Culture All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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-- INDIRA Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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illiterate sport fishermen.
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
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-- Russell Baker Society and Culture This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
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will cost.
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-- Maya Angelou Society and Culture
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
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looking frantic.
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-- George Santayana Society and Culture Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Society and Culture
