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Input Youth Information and Resource Centre - Provides training courses, including word processing, and Internet technologies to youth in Northern Ireland. Includes information about careers, education, housing, and features current news stories.
Light of Crimea - Children's charity appeal with details of the organisation, aid and relief projects and fund raising activities.
Northern Ireland 4 Kids - This colourful site includes a calendar of children's events, topical information, and a small directory of relevant organisations.
Public Achievement - Organisation helping young people to be active citizens. Information on activities, publications, and membership.
Western Area Children and Young Peoples Committee - Forum for bringing together the agencies and bodies most involved with identifying the needs of, and developing services for, children and young people in need. Includes area covered, services provided and publications.
Youth Action Northern Ireland - Information on programmes they run, FAQs, training and resources in areas such as a community relations, rural development, work with young men, gender equality, and performing arts.
Children's Friendship Project for Northern Ireland - A non-profit group that pairs Protestant and Roman Catholic teens to spend a summer in the U.S. with host families. Includes project background, newsletters, application forms and contacts.
The Spirit of Enniskillen Trust - Cross-community program for young people. Includes information about the Trust's background and activities.
The Training Trust - Charity that brings Catholic and Protestant young people together to work directly on projects related to Africa and the Third World in order to further the peace process. Includes news, project information and contacts.
JEDI (Joined in Equity, Diversity and Interdependence in Northern Ireland) - An initiative to bring together Northern Ireland youth, in a creative partnership to promote change and development. Information about policies and practice, with contact details.
Gingerbread Northern Ireland - Organisation for lone parents with news, project details, services and contacts.
Northern Ireland Childminding Association - Includes publications, services, events, training information and a guide to the meaning of registration for Childminders.
Reflect - Initiative of the Church of Ireland in Down and Dromore. News, online activities and chat forums.
Children and Young People's Unit - Children`s rights, speeches by ministers, contact details and links.
The Boys' Brigade UK - Christian youth organisation for boys.
Northern Ireland Scout Council - Official site of the United Kingdom Scout Association in the Province. Includes event flyers and application forms.
The Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster - Includes news, events, membership information and contacts.
Northern Childcare Partnership - Voluntary and statutory agencies working to enhance childcare provision. Details of organisations involved and funding.
Parents Advice Centre - Information on the service for parents and young people across the Province which offers support, guidance and counselling.
YMCA Ireland, The National Council of YMCA's of Ireland - Reference site of this umbrella body, with a list of all YMCA's on the island of Ireland and other information. There are private areas for staff.
Boys and Girls Clubs Northern Ireland - Organisation of which many of the province's youth clubs are members. Includes mission statement, competition information and discussion forum.
Down and Connor Youth Commission - Catholic organisation with details of local parish youth centres and event information.
The Children's Law Centre - Helping young people, their parents and professionals work with and understand laws which affect children. Includes information about children's rights legislation, downloadable posters and an overview of services available.
YouthNet NI - An independent agency which represents the interests and aspirations of voluntary youth organisations. Includes news, events and contacts.
Children's Services Northern Ireland - Includes information about adoption and fostering, childcare and children's welfare.
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Youth Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Youth When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Youth Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Youth If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Youth America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee 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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Youth I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Youth "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Youth 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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Youth Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Youth Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Youth Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Youth "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Youth People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Youth 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 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 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Youth They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Youth Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Youth Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Youth LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Youth "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) 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 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Youth In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Youth I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Youth
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