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German and Austrian Cultural Links - Annotated links on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, including news sources, web radio, reference material, search engines, and book resources.
German Connection - Germanbuds for Americans and Germans to meet and become pen pals. Jokes, music, and guestbook.
German Culture - The starting place for exploring Germany and getting to know German cultural aspects.
German and Cultural Studies Links - Includes sites on culture, feminism, the media, language, regions, business, and politics.
German History - From the German Language site of About.com. A link list of resources on German culture and society, in part specifically on history.
Culture and Society (Goethe Institute) - Overviews, news and links to relevant sites on all aspects of German society and culture.
German Culture - Information and articles on many aspects of German society, culture and history. Includes a forum.
Germany - A Country Study - A comprehensive study (current as of 1995) of Germany's history, society, health, welfare and education system, economy and business, government, politics and of police and defence forces. By the Federal Research Division of the US Library of Congress.
Deutsche Kultur International - This system is designed to guide you through German foreign cultural policy. It provides information on the main areas and organizations in international cultural exchange: schools abroad, libraries, German language, youth exchange, art, the media, and sciences.
Vietnamese Public Affairs Committee - Dedicated to enhance political, social awareness among Vietnamese in Germany in issues of human rights, social, economic and environmental issues in and outside Vietnam.
German Links - Colonel Craig's Internet links for Germans.
Imperial German Orders - History and reviews of various German Orders.
How To Germany - Information on a large range of aspects of living in German mainly for expatriates from English-speaking countries.
German American Cultural Heritage - Page of links to sites pertaining mostly to Germany, it's heritage and genealogy.
Cultural Policies in Europe: Germany - Access to data, facts, trends and summaries of current debates on national cultural policy developments in Germany.
German Dialects - Overview of the German language's various dialects.
The Trouble with Germans - A two part BBC Radio 4 series about myths and stereotypes of Germans, as well as unwanted sympathies.
In Touch - Articles about German life, arts and culture.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Society and Culture The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Society and Culture Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Society and Culture Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Society and Culture The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Society and Culture Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Society and Culture 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 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Society and Culture "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Society and Culture Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Society and Culture If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Society and Culture I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp 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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) 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 Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Society and Culture I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Society and Culture
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