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Akrites - Initiative of Greeks abroad with pending military obligations. Explanation of the problem and the proposal.
Medical Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (MRCT) - The MRCT sprang out of Amnesty International and is funded by the European Union. It aims to provide medical, psychological and emotional support to asylum seekers who have experienced forms of institutional torture. Site in English and Greek.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Issues I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Issues The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Issues The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Issues Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Issues If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Issues Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Issues "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Issues Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Issues He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Issues UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke Issues The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke Issues And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Issues We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Issues Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Issues Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West Issues Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Issues The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Issues A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar "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 know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Issues I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Issues We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Issues I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Issues
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