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	Eugenides Foundation - The Eugenides Foundation is a non-profit public benefit educational organization.
	Philekpaideftiki Etaireia - Founded in 1836 it is one of the oldest educational establishments in Greece. Located in Athens, Patras, Thessaloniki and Tirana.
	Lambrakis Research Foundation - Creative initiatives contributing to the upgrade of Education and to the promotion of the European Cultural Heritage.
	The Hellenic Pedagogical Institute - The Pedagogical Institute is called upon to national demands for an educational reform that will meet the challenges of the 21st century, as well as those inherited by the historical role of Greece.
	Centre of Greek Language - Co-ordinating, advisory and strategic organ of the Ministry of Education on matters of language education and policy. Located in Thessaloniki and Athens.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Languages Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Languages "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Languages Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Languages Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Languages I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Languages When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Languages Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Languages 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Languages If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Languages Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf 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 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Languages Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Languages "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Languages Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Languages Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Languages "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Languages The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett Languages The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Languages No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Languages The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Languages "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "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 would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Languages Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." 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