Visnjan Observatory - Public observatory specialized in research of the small bodies of the Solar system. Other activities include education and popularization of astronomy and science.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Astronomy "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "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) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Astronomy
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Astronomy If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Astronomy
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Astronomy "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Astronomy
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Astronomy The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Astronomy
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Astronomy Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Astronomy
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Astronomy He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Astronomy
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Astronomy "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Astronomy
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Astronomy Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Astronomy
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Astronomy The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "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 Astronomy
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Astronomy The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Astronomy
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Astronomy "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Astronomy
