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Belarus Inside! - Photos of modern Belarus (nature, castles, churches). Some thoughts about life in Belarus. Life in Belarus as far as Belarusian citizen can see it. Aquarelle picture gallery. In English, Russian.
Minsk Center for Gender Studies - Affiliated with Women's Non-State College ENVILA, and concerned with carrying out research in women's and gender issues.
Belarusian Heritage - A comprehensive site including tradition clothing, country museum, heraldry, famous Belarusians, towns, cities,and architecture.
History of Belarussian Jewry - Web project on the history of Belarussian Jewry. Includes census, information about Jewish tradition and practices, pictures of Belarussian synagogues, Jewish history of individual cities and shtetls.
The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Society and Culture "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Society and Culture More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Society and Culture "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Society and Culture The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Society and Culture "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith 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 Society and Culture Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Society and Culture The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Society and Culture "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "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 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Society and Culture Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Society and Culture Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Society and Culture "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Society and Culture
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