Zebra - Center for medical, legal and cultural assistance for foreigners in Austria. Information about services, links and contacts.
United States Mission to International Organizations in Vienna (UNVIE) - Provides links to United Nations agencies and mission whose aim is preventing nuclear proliferation, nuclear testing, ensuring safe nuclear power plants, promoting economic development, fighting drugs and curbing international crime.
German and Austrian Annotated Cultural Links - Cultural and media links to the German speaking countries, with focus on Styria and Graz. Publications, web radio, search engines.
SI Austria - Includes Open Heart - Open Door home hospitality programme, link clubs, Project Lithuania and club forms.
Irish Austrian Society - Dublin society promoting ties between the peoples of Ireland and Austria: includes calendar of activities and contact information.
Austrian Minorities and Ethnic Groups - The minorities pages from ORF - On (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation - Online) focus on Austrian allochthone groups, ethnic minorities and human rights.
Alpenschaduw - Related to critical book about Austrian legal system and experience of a Dutch ski instructor accused of drug trafficking. Contains documents, summary and details of author.
Tibet Cafe - Tibetan-Austrian online community with forum and news.
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Society and Culture
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Society and Culture Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Society and Culture
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Society and Culture Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Society and Culture
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "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 Society and Culture There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Society and Culture By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Society and Culture Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Society and Culture
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Society and Culture In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Society and Culture
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 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Society and Culture People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Society and Culture
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Society and Culture
