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History House: Athenian Rowdies - Story of an Athenian boy getting into legal trouble with bullies in this everyday life portrait of ancient Greece.
Theseus - Abridged modern English version of Plutarch's life of Theseus, the founder of Athens.
Smithsonian Magazine: Unearthing Athens' Underworld - Read this article about the construction of the city's new metro and archaeological finds.
MCDim's WebPage - Personal site for this graduate of the Greek Marine Academy of Aspropyrgos; includes photos and anecdotes.
Saint Andrews International Church - Evangelical, English-speaking, multi-national, inter-denominational congregation. Site describes beliefs, Sunday services, ethnic fellowships and care groups, and ministries. Also profiles the pastor and council, lists upcoming events, and provides photograph gallery and study tools.
Saint Paul's Anglican-Episcopal Church - Includes information about the church and its history, location, contacts, services and Communion times. Also provides details of the Greater Athens Chaplaincy in Greece and the Greek islands.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman Society and Culture There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Society and Culture Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Society and Culture Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Society and Culture There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Society and Culture "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture 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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Society and Culture "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') Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Society and Culture "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
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