Blesok - Shine magazine for literature and arts, published bimonthly in Macedonian and English
Studentski Zbor - Student Magazine of Saints Cyril and Methodius University. English, Turkish, Romanian and Albanian versions available.
Balkan Politics - Journal magazine about political issues concerning the region and the world.
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Good friends are good for your health.
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-- F. Emerson Andrews "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Magazines and E-zines
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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-- Phyllis Diller "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Magazines and E-zines As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
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Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Magazines and E-zines Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Magazines and E-zines
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Magazines and E-zines "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Magazines and E-zines
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Magazines and E-zines When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin 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 "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) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
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-- G. K. Chesterton Magazines and E-zines "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Magazines and E-zines
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Magazines and E-zines My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Magazines and E-zines
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Magazines and E-zines A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Magazines and E-zines
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Magazines and E-zines The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
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-- William Arthur Ward It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Magazines and E-zines
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 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Magazines and E-zines When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Magazines and E-zines
"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) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Magazines and E-zines We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Magazines and E-zines
