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Albanian Language and Literature - Archive pages for the Albanian language and literature.
Planters Seed Foundation - Religious group travels from Illinois to Albania to work with Albanian farmers, "providing seeds for planting and seeds of the Gospel for their hearts."
AMURT Albania - Relief and development activities in the country, including micro-credit, education and community service. Offers information on the organisation and on current projects.
Albanian World - History and orthography of Albanian, online lessons, conversational phrase, comments on the translation of literary texts into Albanian, and links to related cultural sites.
Ethnic Albanians in Greece - Study and facts about the Chams question.
Orthodox Authocephalous Church of Albania - Official site. Biography of the Archbishop, overview of Church life, history, news, social outreach ministry, Theological Academy.
Albanian American Civic League - Registered lobby in Washington, DC, representing the concerns and interests of the Albanian people. Includes information on activities, directors, memberships and publications.
Center for Habitat Development - NGO active in the field of social development and neighborhood improvement in the Tirana area. Describes projects and the organization.
Association of Albanian Girls and Women - AAGW is a nonprofit humanitarian organization assisting victims of human trafficking in Albania. Offers background informations about their work and trafficking as well as hand outs and other educational material.
Ethnologue - Languages of Albania - Spoken living languages and dialects of the county and numbers of speakers.
Human Development Report - Albania - United Nations Development Program report. Includes demographic and economic information.
GoTranslators - Database of the different translation services by languages and specialist areas. Includes translation the Albanian language.
Hands of Hope - Humanitarian aid organization benefiting children. Includes information on medical, educational and developmental programs, events, press releases and accomplishments.
National Albanian American Council - NAAC is an organization dedicated to advocating for Albanians and promoting peace and economic development in the Balkans by fostering democratic policy, promoting respect for human rights, and conducting educational and developmental programs. Includes press releases, calendar of events and information on public forums.
Cultural Policies in Europe - Albania - Includes country profile, data, facts, trends and summaries of current debates on national cultural policy developments.
Flags Of The World - Albania - Includes information on the flag, seal, national symbols and the presidential flag.
Save the Children - Albania Program - Independent, non-political, non-religious organization promoting the rights and welfare of children. Includes news and information on projects, programs, publications and donations.
UNICEF in Albania - Advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Includes news and information on programs, publications and donors.
Institute for Policy and Legal Studies - Non-profit, non-governmental organization of Western trained Albanian lawyers. Projects, legal information, and the constitution.
UN International Organization for Migration - Tirana - Migration and resettlement of displaced persons. Includes news and information on projects.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - Albania - Deals with wide range of security related issues including arms control, preventive diplomacy, confidence and security building measures, human rights, democratization, election monitoring, and economic and environmental security. Includes information on background, activities and documents.
Soros Open Society Foundation for Albania - Established to help the process of democratization. Includes information on programs and priorities.
United Nations Development Programme in Albania - Helps to build national capacity to improve lives on an enduring basis - work, education, health, surroundings and use of natural resources. Includes information on projects, publications and goals.
The British Council - Albania - Educational and cultural relations organization. Includes information on services, projects and events.
AgroWeb Albania - Collects and provides information on agricultural institutions and agriculture related subjects to help users to find information and contacts.
Dying To Leave - Profile of Albania - Information on illicit human smuggling and trafficking from the PBS series Wide Angle.
Sustainable Economic Development Agency - Helps communities and organizations with development. Includes information on fields of activities, publications
Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania - Includes information on the Archbishop, the Synod of Albania, history, ministries, services, programs, Church life, publications and education.
Encyclopedia.com - Scanderbeg - Albanian national hero. Includes biographical information.
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development - Albania - Non-profit relief and development organization. Includes information on programs, projects, publications and financial information.
Albanian Encouragement Project - Organization of Evangelical Christian missionaries and humanitarian organizations. Includes information on the mission, activities, participants and memberships.
Albanian Outreach Ministry - Includes newsletter and information on Bible distribution. Includes the Bible translated into Albanian in written text and audio.
Center for Christian Leadership of Albania - Trains Christian leaders. Includes information on classes, curriculum and history of the center. Also includes information on Albania and the culture.
Robert Elsie - Writer, translator, interpreter, specialist in Albanian studies. Includes a biography and information on publications.
Albanian Christian Pages - Ministry of Albanians for Christ Project. Includes The Bible, news and articles and information on the trip to Albania.
Albanian Students Club - Group of students abroad. Includes message boards and images.
Mjaft - Campaign to raise public awareness of social problems. Includes news and information on the organization, activities, volunteering, material and press contact.
New Albanian Generation - Non-governmental organization working toward democracy, peace, prosperity and a safe future for all. Includes information on activities, history, memberships,
Heritage Films - History of Albania - Includes historical information of the country including Jewish history.
The Albania Implosion - A personal account of March 1997 by Pavli Qesku, former Ambassador to London. Includes information by chapter.
The Lincoln Foundation - Provides help with marketable skills and to reinforce moral values. Includes contact details with information on the organization, programs, events and staff.
The United Nations in Albania - Total of 17 UN organizations are operating in the country. Information about the organization, news, and contact information.
Albanian Center for International Trade - ACIT - An independent nonpartisan organization devoted to research analysis and publication focused on public policy issues in the area of trade.
Albanian.com - Contains information about the Albanian land, its people and the Albanian language. Also included is a photo gallery and a list of famous Albanians.
New Albanian Generation - Non-governmental, non-profit organization supporting stability, peace and prosperity in Albania. Contains information about the organization, its history, membership, activities, press relases and contact. Also includes links to education, news and other sites. Photo gallery on organization events available.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Society and Culture "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Society and Culture "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Society and Culture I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Society and Culture In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture 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 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Society and Culture "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Society and Culture Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous 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 "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) 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 Society and Culture Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Society and Culture It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Society and Culture That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Society and Culture If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett 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 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Society and Culture By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Society and Culture
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