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Bellpeace Noise - Features pictures and lyrics of this punk band from Croatia.

Diocletian's Palace - Build at the end of the third century AD by the Roman Emperor Diocletian it is one of UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage sites.

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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Arts and Entertainment Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Arts and Entertainment "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) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard 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 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Arts and Entertainment Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha "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) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Arts and Entertainment Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Arts and Entertainment The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Arts and Entertainment Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Arts and Entertainment The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Arts and Entertainment "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) 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 promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Arts and Entertainment If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Arts and Entertainment They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "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) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Arts and Entertainment "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Arts and Entertainment "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Arts and Entertainment
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