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Grace International Ministries - Evangelical and educational association. Includes description of projects and goals, times of services, photo galleries and contact details.
ZARA - Provides counselling for victims and witnesses of racism. Contact information only. [More detailed content in German]
TK Home - Thomas Kohlwein's site. Includes photographs, projects, DR-DOS tips, geometry, SimCity cheats, internet domain names and awards won.
Soroptimist International Vienna I Club - Includes club history, contact and meeting information, speakers, calendar and programme activities.
Hundertwasser House - Created by residents of the architectural landmark. Contains statistics, personal impressions, galleries, collectors' items and guestbook.
Dr Erhard Suess - Contains collection of photos and contact details for work as clinical neurologist and psychiatrist.
Gebhard Ottacher - Personal site containing news from civil service in Nicaragua, work experience and studies, and photos of travels and friends.
Andreas Poeschek - Personal site. Individual details, contact information and photo galleries of mainly Austrian themes.
Women's Career Network - Resource and support group. Includes details of coming events, newsletters, and membership.
Christ Church Anglican - Offers English-language worship, information about church services, important dates, a letter from the Chaplain, and details of the Church bazaar. Includes location and directions, contacts, and a list of Ecumenical links.
Al Haffar - Personal homepage and forum, with private sections.
Unofficial VIS year 2002 alumni site - Alumni directory for year 2002 graduates from Vienna International School.
Help Afghan School Children - Organization helping new Afghan returnees send their children to school. Details of projects, methods of donation, photos and structure.
Wiener Freiheit - Meeting point for gay, lesbian and transgender people. Includes photos and details of location, history and commercial structure.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Society and Culture Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Society and Culture Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Society and Culture "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Society and Culture Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Society and Culture When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Society and Culture 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 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short 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 best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Society and Culture "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Society and Culture There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Society and Culture
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