G21: Irish Eyes - Article examining the progress made in the Robert Hamill case, three years after his death.
Robert Hamill - The Search for Justice - Includes testimony of Diane Hamill to the US Congress House International Relations Committee, text of reports to the United Nations, RUC press releases and newspaper articles covering this case.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Robert Hamill "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Robert Hamill
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Robert Hamill If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Robert Hamill
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Robert Hamill "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Robert Hamill
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Robert Hamill My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Robert Hamill
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Robert Hamill A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Robert Hamill
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Robert Hamill The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Robert Hamill
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Robert Hamill I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Robert Hamill
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Robert Hamill Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Robert Hamill
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Robert Hamill "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 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 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Robert Hamill
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Robert Hamill Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Robert Hamill
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Robert Hamill "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Robert Hamill
