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Papandreou, Vaso - Personal web site of the Minister of the Interior Public Administration and Decentralization.
Papandreou, George A. - Personal page of the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs (1999-present). Includes curriculum vitae, speeches, an extensive news article archive on pertinent foreign policy issues and information on the proposal for an Olympic Truce.
The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Political Figures There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Political Figures Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Political Figures If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Political Figures It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Political Figures Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Political Figures NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Political Figures Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Political Figures Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Political Figures "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Political Figures Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Political Figures "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Political Figures "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Political Figures "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Political Figures We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Political Figures When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Political Figures There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Political Figures 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) What's new? Most of my wife. Political Figures Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde "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." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Political Figures Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Political Figures "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Political Figures "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Political Figures
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