Pilot Cultural Heritage Project - Web site of the specialized agency whose responsibilities are performing professional and other jobs for coordination of the building of the Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ti BiH - Official website of Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It includes activity plan, statute, formation guidelines, chapters and analyses.
Zenica - Humanitarian project for connecting people who are now all over the world.
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Society and Culture
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Society and Culture Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Society and Culture "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Society and Culture
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Society and Culture It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Society and Culture
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Society and Culture One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Society and Culture
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Society and Culture The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Society and Culture "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Society and Culture
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Society and Culture
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Society and Culture I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Society and Culture Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Society and Culture I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Society and Culture