Tachydomi A.E. - Manufacturer of prefabricated buildings in Akrotiri; includes a company profile and contact information.
Stathoudakis Insurance - Independent agency offering coverage for personal and business property, car, boat, life, and private medical insurance. Has offices in Hania, Kissamos, and Paleochora.
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-- Robert Benchley We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Anyway, 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,
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-- Benjamin Disraeli My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
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- Frank Lloyd Wright If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
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-- Anon Business and Economy
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
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-- Thomas Jefferson Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- G. K. Chesterton Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
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-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
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-- St. Augustine Business and Economy
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-- Helen Keller Such is life.
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-- Sioux Indian Prayer Business and Economy Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 ...the fog is rising.
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-- Soren Kierkegaard Business and Economy
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-- Helen Roland The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
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 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Business and Economy
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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- Frank Lloyd Wright Business and Economy The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
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-- Sun Tzu Business and Economy
