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Bulgarian Studies Association - Non-profit scholarly organization promotes the study of and exchange of all aspects of the country and the people.

Center for the Study of Democracy - Interdisciplinary public policy institute dedicated to the values of democracy and market economy.

Bulgarian Liver Transplant Association - Nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the emotional, educational, and financial needs of families coping with childhood liver disease and transplantation.

Bulgarian-American Society - A non-profit humanitarian organization founded in 1991 to assist the Bulgarian people as they emerged from decades of communist rule.

Internet Rights Bulgaria - Foundation promotes initiatives relating to the social and human rights sectors in the country.

Bulgarian Child, Inc. - Corporation dedicated to helping those children living in Children's homes across that country.

Open Society Foundation - Sofia - Aims to support integration of the country into United Europe from a broad civic perspective. Includes priorities, programs, and key national partners.[English/Bulgarian]

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(Francois Marie Ar Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Organizations At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. 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The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Organizations "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Organizations Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Man and wife make one fool. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Organizations 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 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Organizations Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Organizations A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Organizations It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Organizations There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Organizations "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Organizations Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Organizations The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Organizations Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Organizations Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Organizations A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Thank heaven. 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