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Foundation of the Hellenic World - Aiming to promote historic, educational and social activities so that modern thought may be inspired by the Hellenic spirit.

Greek Food: A Complete Guide - Descriptions, photos, Athens market tour, wine, how to say it and where to eat it.

Hellenism.net - Find out about the country, the Greek culture, and the people; includes photos, forums, and links.

Greek Date - A dating service and forum for Greeks. Based in Sydney, Australia, but with an international perspective. This site has a membership requirement.

Greek Town - Connecting you to Hellenism with chat room, forum, news from Greece and events.

Greek House - A cultural center located in the Athens suburb of Kifissia promoting the Greek language and culture to non-native speakers.

Thegreekforum.com - A variety of 15 forums including dateing for Greeks, photos, business, classifieds, events, jobs, recipes, Greek gods, churches, interviews and romance.

Greek Traditions Page - Information and links about Greek traditions, with folk dancing and music, costumes, holidays and observances, customs, marriage, christmas and easter.

The Greek Language - The grammar of modern Greek and a brief history of the language.

Yvelia - The site where Greek and Jewish cultures, architecture, history and heritage meet.

Bodossaki Foundation - Greek public welfare organization that promotes education, medical care and protection of the natural environment through funding and scholarships.

Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation - International organization supporting medical research and scholarship, Greek cultural efforts, and environmental work. Find out about programs, grants, and the history of the foundation.

Hellenic University Club of Southern California - A club dedicated to the promotion, study and understanding of the Hellenic culture. Outlines the club's history and objectives, membership criteria and event calendar.

Hellenic Electronic Center - Created as a non-profit, non-political organization, and as a major facility to disseminate information about Hellenism through Internet.

Greece-Japan - news and information about Greece and Japan and their bilateral relations.

Aromanian Vlachs - News and information center developed by British travellers; e-texts, song lyrics and poems, and bibliography included.

Hellenic American Union - The mission of this organization is to transfer Western know-how and educational technology to Greece.

The Armenian Community in Greece - Listings of the armenian organizations and unions operating within Greece. Media, schools, churches. Information around the Armenian Community in Greece, Armenia, and Armenians.

The Greek Community of Metropolitan Toronto - Offers programs for social integration, religious and social services, services to the elderly, education in the Greek language, history, sports and cultural activities.

National Theatre of Greece - Organizational profile, news and information on productions. Established for the promotion of Greek theatre, history and culture.

One Earth - Independent organization established to contribute to the eradication of global poverty; find out about initiatives, supports, and volunteer opportunities.

Hellenic Ministry of Culture - Official site; contains guide for museums, monuments, organizations, and archaeological sites throughout the country.

FindYourFriends - Services to locate and find old and new friends through registering at the schools, university or army base you attended in Greece.

Rotary Club of Greece - Find out about the organization, meetings, and events. Also offers information on membership and related links.

SeekaGreek - Greek singles dating site, giving people of Hellenic descent a way to meet others with similar interests for the pursuit of friendship and love.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Society and Culture The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Society and Culture blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Society and Culture Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Society and Culture It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) 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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Society and Culture The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Society and Culture "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Society and Culture Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Society and Culture Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Society and Culture Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture
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