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Andreas G. Papandreou Foundation - Institute for social research, policy analysis and peace-building, named after one of Greece's most extraordinary and controversial statesmen. In English and Greek.

E21 - Conservative think tank, established in 1994 and closely associated with neo-liberal groupings in the political, academic and business worlds. Site in English.

Center for Democracy in South East Europe - An international non-Governmental organisation set up to foster bourgeois parliamentary societies and market economies that operate within the framework of the law.

Greek Turkish Forum - A UK-based site dedicated to improving Greek-Turkish relations by promoting a full and honest understanding of the ties of friendship, as well as the issues of discord, that exist between the two countries. Site in English, Greek and Turkish.

Research Institute of European and American Studies - RIEAS focuses on politics and security in Southeast Europe, with emphasis on Greece, Greek-Turkish relations, and Euro-Atlantic issues.

Enotita - A pan-orthodox organization with the stated goal of defending the values of Hellenism and all of Orthodoxy from Islam and the West.

Paremvassi (Intervention) - Citizen-based pro-European Union group promoting the modernization of Greek civil society based on Western liberal principles of public accountability in government and of informed, democratic citizenry. Site in English and Greek.

Hellenic Resources Network - The chief goal of this organization is to open the lines of communication between the Greek diaspora and Greek public policy makers. Here you will find an extensive, well organized collection of news articles and public documents pertinent to the national interests of Greece.

Kyrillos and Methodios - Aiming at better understanding and co-operation between the Greek and Bulgarian people.

Perseas - News about Greek national issues, articles, polls and literature.

Anarchy - Comprehensive Greek anarchist page, focusing on resistance against the state, popular justice and libertarian activism. In Greek and English.

Institute of European Integration and Policy - Profile, projects and contact information of this independent policy-oriented research institute, established by the University of Athens.

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This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Politics A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Politics "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Politics The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Politics Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Politics "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Politics "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Politics "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Politics "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Politics Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Politics An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Politics If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Politics To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Politics He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Politics Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Politics "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Politics That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Politics "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Politics The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Politics There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Politics One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Politics
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