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InfoCzech - Irreverent information and resources about the country, including FAQs, tips, guides, and links.
Czech Slovak Heritage Tours - General information on Czech and Slovak genealogy, folklore, and history, plus details of tours offered.
Patrimony Safeguard Association - Swiss nonprofit association focused on restoring and renewing monuments of cultural and historical heritage in country. Lists an introduction, activities, finances, and contact details.
Cycling and Energy Futures - Nonprofit organisation promoting urban cycling, cycle tourism, the Greenways concept, and sustainable energy.
Through the eyes of Leslie Farmer - Articles on historic preservation and architecture in the country, plus links to related sites.
Czech Radio Club - Group of enthusiasts around the country. Contains information and reference on a wide range of related subjects, recommended links, practical advice, and contact details.
Dealing with Hate, Racism, and Violence - Article by Jan Fábry in the New Presence, July 1997, considering whether the Czech Republican Party ought to be banned.
Zlate Stranky - Business and person directory. Includes categories, search facility, important numbers, and links to links to partners.
Trajan s.r.o. - Offers information and services about immigration policy, business and work, prices and standards of living, education, real estate, and tourism.
Vegetarian Pages - Chat room available, plus a shop with related products.
Czech Philately - Czechoslovak stamp collector. Includes image galleries, bibliography, articles, and details of related societies, plus links and publications of handbooks.
Open Society Fund Prague - Supporting the development of spiritual values, humanistic aims, education, and culture in the Czech Republic. Includes news stories and annual reports. Most content in Czech, some English.
Agency FCT - Cultural programs and social events organised. Includes details of the dance school, art agency, live music, and outdoor activities, with contact details and list of services offered.
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian 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 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Society and Culture 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 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Society and Culture The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Society and Culture Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Society and Culture The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Society and Culture Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Society and Culture History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society and Culture Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Society and Culture Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola "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 Society and Culture "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Society and Culture I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Society and Culture What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Society and Culture When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries "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 Society and Culture In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Society and Culture Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Society and Culture
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