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Goethe-Institut - Promoting the study of the German language abroad and international cultural cooperation.
Native American Association of Germany e.V. - Promotes Native American-German/European cross-cultural exchange, organizes powwows in Germany with Native participation, trilingual (German-English-French) website, quarterly newsletter, fights stereotypes, active in educational institutions
German-Maltese Circle - A cultural and educational link between Germany and the Mediterranean Island of Malta. (German/English)
Nepalese Students Society in Germany - Information for and on Nepalese students in Germany.
German Charities Institute - 25,000 pages on charity, philanthropy and volunteering. English and Deutsch.
Soroptimist International German Union - A worldwide organization for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Regional site including a weekly updated calendar of national and international Soroptimist activities and links of general interest to women. (English and German)
Information about Probus - Information about the Probus-Clubs in Germany.
German Economy Foundation Initiative - The foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future" that is tasked with paying compensation for forced and slave labour during the Third Reich. With background information on the foundation and link to a fact sheet (PDF) on the application and payment process.
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, primary and secondary education, libraries, German language, youth exchange, art, media, study and sciences.
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier "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) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Organizations "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen 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 Organizations The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Organizations "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Organizations Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Organizations The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Organizations He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III "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 Organizations When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Organizations Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Organizations The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Organizations Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Organizations Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Organizations I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Organizations "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Organizations "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) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Organizations And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Organizations We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Organizations History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Organizations "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Organizations We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Organizations All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. 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