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Talent Art - Association focused on creating a virtual gallery of pieces from a range of sources. Includes member profiles, image galleries, a postcard facility, and registration form.
M.E.C.C.A. - Middle European Colony of Contemporary Arts. Ehxibitions, gallery, projects and centres.
The Czech Cartoonists' Union - Association of amateur and professional cartoonists and caricaturists. Includes an overview of the organisation and an events listing.
Aleale - Home made glass beads and jewellery. Images and descriptions of pieces included, plus history, details of the workshop, and contact details.
Bookworld - Association of booksellers and publishers. Includes company profile, upcoming events, and contacts, plus details of the International book fair organised.
Late Harvest - Southern rock band from South Moravia. Includes a sample MP3, image gallery, and contact details.
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Arts and Entertainment "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Arts and Entertainment It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Arts and Entertainment The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Arts and Entertainment In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Arts and Entertainment "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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Arts and Entertainment Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Arts and Entertainment There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Arts and Entertainment Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon "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, Alice in Wonderland Arts and Entertainment Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Arts and Entertainment Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman 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 The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes 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 Arts and Entertainment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Arts and Entertainment Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky 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 Arts and Entertainment >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Arts and Entertainment The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Arts and Entertainment
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