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Canadian Slavonic Papers - An Interdisciplinary Journal Devoted to Central and Eastern Europe.
Central and Eastern Europe Travel - Travel information on Central and Eastern European countries including photos, stories, music, radio, webcams, and links to resources on Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia.
Central European University - Academic programmes and faculty, educational resources, student resources and research and special projects.
CentralEurope.org.uk - A chronology and resources (photos, speeches, essays, who's who) for events in Central and Eastern Europe arranged per country.
Spaces of Identity Central Europe - Journal which deals with the cultures and societies of Central and Eastern Europe, including the Balkan.
South-East European Network of Associations of Private Broadcasters - Promotes media standards, trains journalists and monitors the legal situation of media in the region. Information on activities, documents and resources. With forum and chat.
International Harm Reduction Development - Drug use and HIV infection in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Visual Art and Cultural History of Eastern Europe - Studies of monumental sculpture,socialist realism, visual culture and contemporary art of Central and Eastern Europe.
I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Culture and Society You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Culture and Society Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Culture and Society If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Culture and Society Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Culture and Society Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Culture and Society I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Culture and Society Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Culture and Society If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz 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 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Culture and Society Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Culture and Society Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Culture and Society "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Culture and Society May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Culture and Society Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Culture and Society Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Culture and Society Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Culture and Society Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Culture and Society If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson "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) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Culture and Society The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Culture and Society blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Culture and Society Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Culture and Society And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Culture and Society
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