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Greece - A Pandora's Box of Ethnicities - A plea for a better perception within Greece of such concepts as regional "folk" art, alternate ethnic identities, camouflaged history, rebuked customes, vanishing languages and non main-stream religions. Visually enriched with folk-art related images.
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Folk Art "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Folk Art My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes 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 By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Folk Art "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Folk Art Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Folk Art Spinster: A bachelor's wife. blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Folk Art Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables 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" When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Folk Art You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Folk Art Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Folk Art In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Folk Art If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Folk Art In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Folk Art "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Folk Art Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Folk Art A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Folk Art The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde Folk Art Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Folk Art The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Folk Art 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 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Folk Art Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Folk Art Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "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) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Folk Art I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Folk Art
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