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	Northern Ireland Tenants Action Project - Voluntary organisation assisting housing providers by developing and supporting community groups and in the development of policies, programmes and services. Includes a background to the project, event listings, funding factsheets and details of training courses offered.
	Rural Community Network - Voluntary organisation to articulate the voice of rural communities on issues relating to poverty, disadvantage and equality. Includes news, publications and discussion forum.
	Bring Back One Book - Online campaign calling for BT to revert back to one telephone directory covering all of Northern Ireland, following the introduction of four regional phonebooks. Includes vote and petition.

"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Activism Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Activism Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston "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) Activism "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Activism "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Activism "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Activism I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Activism 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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Activism "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Activism The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Activism To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Activism We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa 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 Activism Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Activism If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Activism Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Activism There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Activism Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison 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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Activism "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Activism Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "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) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Activism And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Activism If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Activism Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Activism Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |