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Yakinthia Festival in Anogia - Official homepage of the Yakinthia Festival of Music, Art and Theater in Anogia, Crete, Greece, every year 1st week of July at the Saint Yakinthos chapel in the Psiloritis mountains.
Wall Paintings on Crete - Ben van Dongen presents a selection of frescos from Byzantine churches, including a review of the main themes and photographs.
Cretan Music - Find out about the history, artists, dances, instruments, and songs.
United Artists Of Traditional Cretan Music - Organisation of Cretan musicians, with background information on styles, music and tradition, dances and their endangered existence.
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A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." 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I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Arts and Entertainment I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Arts and Entertainment As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Arts and Entertainment If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Arts and Entertainment Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha "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) Arts and Entertainment Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Arts and Entertainment Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Arts and Entertainment We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Arts and Entertainment "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Arts and Entertainment
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