MSNBC Special Reports: Bitter Border - Articles, personal stories and interactive features charting the history and facts of the troubles and the views of ordinary people. USA.
CNN: Conflict and Hope in Northern Ireland - Special report, including overviews, timeline and maps, profiles of the people and groups involved, archive, quiz and message board. USA.
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Frontline: Behind The Mask - The IRA and Sinn Fein - Companion site to this programme. Features interviews, transcripts, commentary from experts, maps, timelines, 'Inside the IRA' section, selection of reading material, poems and songs, and viewer discussion area.
BBC News: In-Depth: The Peace Process in Northern Ireland - Ongoing coverage including news, commentary and analysis plus profiles, backgrounders and audio/video archive. Links to related BBC reports and outside web resources. UK.
BBC Panorama - Gangsters at War - Companion site to BBC documentary examining the criminal activity and gangland feuding within a loyalist paramilitary group.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh News and Media One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) News and Media
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford News and Media
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns News and Media Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene News and Media
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) News and Media
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin News and Media "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi News and Media
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald News and Media You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 News and Media
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry News and Media Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) News and Media
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch News and Media
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson News and Media Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g News and Media
"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) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau News and Media Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel News and Media
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "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) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin News and Media I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di News and Media
