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CEDAR - Central European Environmental Data Request Facility - A regional service centre for Europe provided by the International Society for Environmental Protection to support environmental information dissemination.

CEFTA - The official pages of the Central European Free Trade Agreement.

Conflictransition Archives - Archives of the Conflictransition discussion list. Essays and articles about the economies of countries in transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkan.

The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe - Resources and programmes for the promotion and support of environmental awareness and civil society in the countries of CEE and the Balkan.

Pan EurAsian - Information about energy markets and privatization conditions in Poland, Ukraine, Russia.

Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe - Reconstruction and development projects, grants, initiatives, and credits. Maintained by the European Commission and the world Bank.

Eastern Europe Country Reviews - Economic and financial data for Eastern Europe contries.

Putin's Russia - Free download of book on Russia's economy under President Vladimir Putin.

Intelligizer - Business intelligence (BI) and knowledge management (KM) for the information & communications technology business, security technology business and e-business sectors in Central & Eastern Europe.

Eastern Profiles - Business research and analysis consultancy specialising in Eastern and Central Europe, Iberia, Turkey and the Maghreb.

CEEMarket - Information on the macroeconomic situation in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Slovakia.

CEEMarketWatch - Real-time news coverage, press reviews, macroeconomic analyses, country reports on the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe, political comments, and forecasts.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "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) 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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Economic >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Economic Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Economic If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Economic The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Economic I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger 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 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Economic I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Economic "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Economic We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "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 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Economic May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Economic If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Economic That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Economic To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Economic A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Economic I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Economic Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Economic 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. -- Anonymous Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Economic Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Economic I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Economic I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Economic The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson 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 nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Economic Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Economic
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