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ERYICA - Composed of national bodies, non-governmental or governmental, which seek to guarantee the right of young people to full and reliable information which promotes their autonomy and their active participation in a democratic society.
Royal British Legion in France - Information targeted both for members living in France and also for visiting members from other countries. Includes facility details, branch history, and contact information.
ECTI - Voluntary association of retired managers and volunteers, providing aid and advice to private companies, public services, and local authorities. Includes examples of past projects, contact information, frequently asked questions, and assignment request form.
Club Képi Blanc - Enthusiasts of the Foreign Legion, includes photographs, message board, and club information.
Humani-Terra International - A French humanitarian association aiming to assist third world countries by sending equipped medical and surgical teams, training health personnel and installing medico-surgical hardware.
James' French Foreign Legion - Web links and information about the French Foreign Legion, operating as part of the French Army. Includes enlistment details.
Malaysian Association in France - Organisation providing a community and events for Malaysians in France.
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Organizations Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Organizations A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Organizations There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Organizations "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Organizations Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Organizations Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Organizations The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Organizations A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Organizations They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Organizations What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Organizations Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Organizations If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Organizations "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Organizations "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Organizations "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Organizations 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 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Organizations "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Organizations 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 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Organizations "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Organizations I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Organizations The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Organizations
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