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Ballinacrow Seventh-day Adventist Church - Situated near Baltinglass the site offers details of beliefs, a midi music library, vegetarian cookbook, Bible lessons and images.
Tintean - Catholic Life Ministries - Offers ministries of prayer, music and faith. Retreats, performances for liturgical year, creative scripts and unique musical compositions.
Eco Centre Wicklow.com - Project that combines organic farming, environmental education and spirituality.
Rootsweb Wicklow - Information for genealogists.
Diocese of Ferns - Accounting for most of Wexford and part of Wicklow, this Catholic diocese presents history, reflections and prayer resources, parishes, personnel, calendar, and notes on publications and music.
Archdiocese of Dublin - Comprehensive information on the second archdiocese of Ireland, leading one of the four Provinces of the Catholic Church on the island, including listings of online parishes, priests with e-mail, details of the bishops, press releases, diocesan works and Mass times.
Wicklow Against Incinerator - Details of environmental campaign against animal waste incinerator.
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Society and Culture "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Society and Culture Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Society and Culture 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 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Society and Culture "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Society and Culture "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Society and Culture Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Society and Culture I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Society and Culture The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Society and Culture I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Society and Culture The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Society and Culture My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Society and Culture "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture
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