Save the Good Friday Agreement Coalition - An internet-based pressure group dedicated to raising awareness of the Good Friday Agreement, and campaigning against what they see as Unionist and British Government failure to implement it. Contains online petition.
PROTEUS (NI) Ltd. - Body charged with delivering aspects of the EU Peace and Reconciliation programme to Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of Ireland, with details of work, publications and training arm.
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-- Albert Einstein "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
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-- Geoffrey C. Ward Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
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-- Soren Kierkegaard Organisations
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
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-- Mark Twain By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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-- Shakespeare, William Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
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-- François de La Rouch You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Organisations Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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-- Will Rogers Organisations
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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-- Kin Hubbard The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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per History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Organisations In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery Organisations
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Organisations "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Organisations
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- George Crane Organisations
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
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-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Organisations First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "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) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Organisations
