1998 Korcula Nationalism Conference - A conference which the issue of nationalism can be freely and openly discussed, as a part of the EU-sponsored project Confidence Building in former Yugoslavia: Reconciliation through direct communication and interaction.
Animal Friends Croatia - Promotes animal welfare in Croatia and internationally. Includes petitions on specific topics, pictures of animals in distress and anti-fur protests, and discussions of topics such as vegetarianism, puppy mills, and mistreatment in zoos and circuses.
Europe House - Non-profit, non-governmental organization established in 1998 with aim to promote World and European integration process, and cultural, political and economic integration of Croatia into Europe.
Epicentre - Theatre centre for children and young people in central and south eastern Europe.
Open Society Institute - Croatia - Programs, past accomplishments, grant applications and winners, and information on staff and partners.
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Society and Culture Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Society and Culture No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Society and Culture
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? 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 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Society and Culture If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Society and Culture Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Society and Culture I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Society and Culture "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) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Society and Culture
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Society and Culture As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Society and Culture
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Society and Culture The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Society and Culture
