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Ballee Baptist Church - Contains news and events about this fellowship including testimonies and spiritual ethos.
Ballyloughan Presbyterian Church - Includes history, worship times, location and news.
Ballymena Community Forum - Includes objectives, executive summary and a directory of community groups and voluntary organisations.
Ecos Millennium Centre - Alternative environmental centre offering a wide range of activities and services.
Family and Addict Support Group - Organisation for families of individuals affected by substance abuse. Information on services offered and contact details.
Ballymena Catholic Parish - Includes history, mass times, photos and information on Parish organisations.
Ballymena Free Presbyterian Church - Features events, sermon recordings and contact details.
Ballymena Local Strategy Partnership - Information about the Peace II programme in the area. Includes information on making an application for funding.
Ballee Mission Hall - Includes history and sermon recordings.
Darren Craig - Features weblog, biography and contacts.
Ballymena Baptist Church - Information on the local Baptist church including history, services, sermons and contact details.
First Ballymena Presbyterian Church - Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Details of organisations, outreach, prayer, history, worship, photos, magazine and a collection of sermons.
High Kirk Presbyterian Church - Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Purpose, location, history, history, contacts, activities, music ministry, information for students and prayer topics and bulletin.
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Society and Culture "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Society and Culture You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Society and Culture Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Society and Culture Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Society and Culture "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Society and Culture To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Society and Culture Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Society and Culture Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara Society and Culture "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Society and Culture Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Society and Culture "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Society and Culture I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Society and Culture I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Society and Culture As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Society and Culture He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Society and Culture
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