MONA - The site serves as subregional center for women organizations in East Europe. Mona organizes training projects for women in politics, public life, provides empowerment strategies in policy making and in research in gender studies.
Back to the Roots - Offers a chance for Hungarian nationals worldwide to adopt a tree in former Transylvania.
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Organizations A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Organizations
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Organizations "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Organizations
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Organizations If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Organizations Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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.
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-- Clarence Darrow "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Organizations There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Organizations
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries 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 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
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- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Organizations
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Organizations Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
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Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Organizations Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Organizations
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Organizations You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Organizations
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Organizations
