Cardiological Society - Aiming to promote the field of cardiology and to attain the best possible scientific working conditions for cardiologists in Greece.
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Associations All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Associations
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Associations A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Associations
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Associations "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Associations
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of 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 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Associations "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Associations
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Associations Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Associations
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Associations A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Associations
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Associations Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Associations
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Associations It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Associations
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Associations Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Associations
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Associations "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Associations
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Associations "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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