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Baha'is of Derry - Details of the community including awards and statements.
Bogside and Brandywell Initiative - Community self help and action group enhancing the potential for socio economic development
Derry Linux Users Group - Includes meetings, mailing list and contacts.
First Housing Aid and Support Services - Provides professional advice and solutions to people in a housing emergency. Includes organisation objectives, services and contacts.
An Gaelaras - Community resource centre offering Irish/Gaelic tuition and courses, translation services, Irish books, craft and musical instruments.
Londonderry Methodist City Mission - Provides information on the building of a new Mission and family centre.
Rotary Club of Londonderry - Features news, events, photos and meeting times.
St Columb's Cathedral - Historic site and Mother Church of the Diocese of Derry, established in 1633. Offers a tour, Worship Schedule, church history, leadership information and contact details.
Gasyard Development Trust - Community self help and action group enhancing the potential for socio economic development, concentrating in the area of urban regeneration.
St.Augustine's - Church of Ireland. Includes news, history, virtual tour and information about the current and previous Rectors.
History of Shirt Making in Derry City - Takes a look at over 30 former shirt factories and the history that surrounded them.
City Vision 2020 - A comprehensive long term development strategy setting out the type of city the people of Derry Londonderry want to put in place by the year 2020
Carlisle Road Presbyterian Church - Includes history, organisations, news, prayer, and details of their War Memorial organ.
Londonderry Baptist Church - Includes events, consitution, worship times and youth activities.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone 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 Society and Culture "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Society and Culture My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Society and Culture "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Society and Culture "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 Society and Culture 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 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. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Society and Culture "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Society and Culture Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Society and Culture Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture "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) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Society and Culture Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Society and Culture "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Society and Culture History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Society and Culture I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Society and Culture If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Society and Culture blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Society and Culture It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Society and Culture
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