DAK Foundation - Provides foster care for children who are orphaned or abandoned. Includes information on the children and the directors, Koos and Diny Rozeboom.
Gjirokastra Youth Council - Youth development and advocacy club. Includes contact details with information on projects, aims and objectives.
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Society and Culture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard My other wife is beautiful. Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Society and Culture
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Society and Culture Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Society and Culture
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. 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 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Society and Culture
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Society and Culture
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Society and Culture
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Society and Culture
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous 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 Society and Culture Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Society and Culture
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Society and Culture "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Society and Culture
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Society and Culture Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture
