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Glens of Antrim Historical Society. - Local history society providing a range of historical information on the Glens of Antrim area of Northern Ireland.
North Antrim Community Network - Information on this project and its 30 member groups including aims and objectives and initiatives to date.
North East Antrim Sinn Fein - Irish Republican site. Tribute to hunger strikers, news items associated with republican victimisation, political and community links and guestbook.
County Antrim Chat - Chat room is for anyone interested in the county. Other rooms of Irish interest available.
Roy Beggs Jnr - Ulster Unionist Party Member for East Antrim. Includes news, surgery information and biography.
Jim Wilson - South Antrim Ulster Unionist representative at the Assembly. Includes news, biography and photographs.
Ireland Genealogical Project County Antrim - Photos, articles and relevant links.
Loughside Volunteer Centre - Promoting volunteering in Antrim, Carrickfergus and Newtownabbey. Includes news and details of volunteer work available.
East Antrim Battalion of the Boys' Brigade - Covering the Carrickfergus, Ballyclare and Larne areas. Includes annual report, history and event information.
Ballymena and Larne Volunteer Bureau - Includes news, contacts and information on volunteering in the area.
Moyle Area Youth Council - Youth empowerment group, with news, past projects and contact details.
Support Your Local History - Essays on the history of Glenravel and Cloney.
Finvoy Young Farmers Club - Includes news, photos and event information.
St Johns Masonic Lodge No. 788 - Located in Cairncastle. Includes events and photos.
Happydog - Organisers of formal events for adults from youth and church fellowships. Provides information on previous and upcoming events.
Women's Aid - Offering help and support for women suffering domestic violence in Antrim, Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Newtownabbey and Larne.
Mid-Antrim Animal Sanctuary - Centre, with a strict no-kill policy, dedicated to the rescue and rehoming of cats, dogs and other animals. Adoption, sponsorship, volunteer details and contact included.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Society and Culture Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg 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 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Society and Culture Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Society and Culture "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Society and Culture There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Society and Culture When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf "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, Society and Culture "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Society and Culture All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Society and Culture Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Society and Culture A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Society and Culture "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Society and Culture "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Society and Culture If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Society and Culture Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
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