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Institute of Ulster Scots Studies - The University of Ulsters Institute of Ulster Scots aims to explore the history, heritage and legacy of the Ulster Scots people. The focus of the research carried out will be on the Ulster Scots Diaspora.
Scotch Irish - Features genealogy, history, music and folklore plus streaming audio and video. Various forums for discussion of Ulster Scots related topics and an online store.
The Ulster Scots - Discusses Scots-Irish heritage. Information on the plantation of Ulster, dialects and speech, history, contact details and guest book.
The Ulster Society - Promotes Ulster-British heritage and culture. Publisher of books and booklets on a wide variety of Ulster-related themes, ranging from serious military and political biography to folk music and fiction. Includes a genealogy section.
Ulster-Scots Agency - Responsible for promoting and developing the Ulster-Scots language and culture. Includes audio files, event listings and competitions.
Mid-Armagh Community Network - Ulster-Scots cultural community group, set up to promote awareness of Ulster-Scots heritage and culture.
Scotch-Irish Central - Promotes Scotch-Irish (Ulster-American) history and culture. Presents information on the Center for Scotch-Irish Studies, Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies, Scotch-Irish Society of the USA, and Scotch-Irish Foundation.
Ulster Scots Society of America - History of the Ulster-Scots in Ireland and America. Contact and membership details.
Canadas Ulster Scots - History of the Ulster-Scots, genealogy and Ulster place names in Canada.
Friends of Ulster - USA - Articles and pictures about the IRA and other international terrorist groups as well as information on Scotch-Irish history, culture and heritage in the United States, particularly in the American South.
Canadian Ulster-Scots List - Genealogy, culture and history of Canada's Ulster Scots,
Ulster Scots and Irish Unionist Resource - Promoting Ulster-Scots / Scotch-Irish history and culture. Sections on the Loyal Orders, government, politics, religion and also paramilitaries and terrorism.
Ulster-Scots Online - Ulster-Scots news, history, culture and heritage.
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When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Ulster-Scots "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Ulster-Scots 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 Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Ulster-Scots Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain 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 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Ulster-Scots If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire 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 "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Ulster-Scots "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Ulster-Scots Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Ulster-Scots "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) 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 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux Ulster-Scots "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ulster-Scots Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J 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 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Ulster-Scots Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Ulster-Scots Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Ulster-Scots "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Ulster-Scots "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Ulster-Scots "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Ulster-Scots Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "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) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Ulster-Scots It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Ulster-Scots
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