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Transylvania: An Ancient Magyar Land - History and map of the region, discussion of social issues concerning Hungarians living in Transylvania, letters opposing Romania's and Slovakia's NATO membership, and related links.
An alternative guide to Hungary. - A web of information regarding the people, sights and flavors of Hungary. A biased approach by Peter Gyulai.
Budapest Journal - Detailed personal views on the nation I live in from the point of view of a foriegner.
Xpatloop - Service for foreign citizens in Hungary who speak English and wish to stay informed about expatriate life in Hungary. Includes news, weather, sports, local events, and links.
Chinatown - Information on Chinese culture and businesses in Hungary.
Expat Budapest - An interactive community site for expatraites living in or relocating to the city. General information, job listings, classified advertisements, events, and links.
Adventures of a Boy Without a Home - The journal of an American exchange student spending a year studying in Satoraljaujhely. Contains thoughts on culture as well as experiences he had there.
Cultural Policies in Europe: Hungary - Access to data, facts, trends and summaries of current debates on national cultural policy developments in Hungary.
Kulturinfo - Cultural and tourist guide to Hungary. Entertainment, food, event listings, sightseeing details, and links.
DX Antenna Technics - Discusses HB9CV antennas for DX stations. Analysis of various models with pictures, tips, and links.
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Society and Culture Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Society and Culture Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Society and Culture Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Society and Culture A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Society and Culture In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Society and Culture I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Society and Culture I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen 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 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Society and Culture The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Society and Culture Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Society and Culture To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Society and Culture Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "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 Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Society and Culture blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "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) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower 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" Society and Culture "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain 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 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Society and Culture
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