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United Kingdom - British Embassy in Athens, with information on the services of the Embassy plus an introduction to Britain. In English and Greek.
Pakistan - Embassy of Pakistan in Greece, with passport and visa application forms, and detailed lists of Pakistani exporters and Greek importers of a variety of products.
Netherlands - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Greece. Includes information on a variety of Dutch matters including windmills, tulips and Anne Frank.
Norway - Royal Norwegian Embassy in Athens, including information on Norway's large maritine industries.
South Africa - South African Embassy located in Athens, also having consular responsibility for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro. Also has much detail about the South African economy.
United States - United States Diplomatic Mission in Athens. Provides Consular assistance to Greeks and Americans, distributes news about American policy, and sponsors a number of programs in co­operation with Greek institutions.
Australia - Australian Embassy, located in Athens and accredited to Greece, Bulgaria and Albania. Has information on consular services, trade and investment.
Japan - With general information about the Embassy of Japan in Greece, Japan-Greece relations, Japan's contribution to the Balkans, and educational opportunities.
Poland - Polish Embassy in Athens. Includes information about the embassy and about Poland, consular matters, Polish politics and culture.
Uzbekistan - Consulate General of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Greece, promoting business development, investment, and tourism. In English, Greek and Russian.
Canada - Canadian Embassy in Athens, with information about Canada, trade, studies, and culture.
United States - The American Consulate General in Thessaloniki Greece, serving the tens of thousands of U.S. citizens in Northern Greece and including information about United States policy.
South Korea - Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Hellenic Republic, with a list of Korean-Greek treaties and agreements, and their dates of coming into force.
Estonia - Estonian Embassy in Athens, with a history of Estonian-Hellenic relations. In English and Estonian.
Czech Republic - Contact information for and a map of the location of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Greece.
Switzerland - Swiss Embassy in Greece, also representing the interests of Liechenstein, In English, French and German.
Finland - Embassy of Finland in Athens, with information on Finland and Finns in Greece. Also has contact details for the Honorary consulates in Kos, Patras, Pireus, Rhodes, and Thessaloniki, and the Honorary vice consulates in Corfu and Crete.
Hungary - The Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Athens. Includes a copy of the Government Decree on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners.
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(Anonymous) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Foreign Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Foreign "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Foreign blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Foreign I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Foreign We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and 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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Foreign "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Foreign The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Foreign When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Foreign If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber 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 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Foreign In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Foreign No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein Foreign People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foreign 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 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Foreign Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller 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 I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. 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