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Bishop Pat Buckley - Conducts an independent ministry from The Oratory to disaffected and alienated Catholics and Christians. Information on marriages, the blessing of gay and lesbian unions, statment of beliefs and a review of his book, "A Thorn in the Side".
Larne and District Housing Association - Provides information about the non-profit making organisation.
Larne Baptist Church - Information on the work, beliefs, history and future plans of this evangelical church.
Larne Community Development Project - Formed in 1997 aiming to introduce and promote the ethos and practice of community development to the area. Staff details, information, contact details and links.
Larne Young Life - Interdenominational Christian group. Provides information about the organisation, programme of events and prayer list.
Larne Boy's Brigade - Includes event calendar and details of conference facilities at Rathmore House.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Society and Culture "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Society and Culture That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying 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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C 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 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 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Society and Culture Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Society and Culture They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Society and Culture The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Society and Culture Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Society and Culture Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Society and Culture Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Society and Culture Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Society and Culture I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Society and Culture Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Society and Culture Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "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) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Society and Culture
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