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Badpoint - Features short bulletins, reviews and links focusing on jungle music, skating and the club scene.
Americans in Prague - Advice and resources published by the American Women's Group in Prague. Includes a links directory, practical tips and a message board.
Prague Now - Discussion mailing list for English speaking residents. Also includes live chat and a message archive.
Expatforum.com: Czech Republic - Simple message board.
International Youth Leadership Conference - Annual conference for 17-25 year olds on leadership. Includes details on sponsors, itineray, venue, news, contact information and an image gallery.
My Prague Spring - Video detailing an account a family's experiences of the 1968 revolution succeeding events. Includes scenes introduction, details of the film's production, and ordering details.
Harvard Club of Prague - Group of alumni and alumnae living in the city. Includes history, club officers,, upcoming events, a signup form, and related links.
The Syrian Club - Voluntary organization for Czech nationals of Syrian origin and their families of Syrian origin. Includes a basic overview of the club with contact details.
Expats.cz - Bulletin board with a variety of topics. Also features articles, a links directory and weather updates.
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Society and Culture He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Society and Culture It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Society and Culture The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Society and Culture It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Society and Culture It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Society and Culture Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Society and Culture Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Society and Culture Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Society and Culture "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Society and Culture Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Society and Culture If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright 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 "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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Society and Culture What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work 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 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Society and Culture Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Society and Culture It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Society and Culture "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Society and Culture I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
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