Center for Nonviolent Action - The main acticvities are trainings and networking in nonviolent conflict transformation in the region of former Yugoslavia. With reports, trainings offered and future activities.
Euro Balkan Enterprise - Advises and assists foreign companies and banks to achieve their trade and investment objectives in the region.
Cyber Yugoslavia - Virtual nation created after the violent breakdown of physical unity in 1991, seeking a way for normal, peaceful and friendly relations between the Balkan nations.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley 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. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Former Yugoslavia It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Former Yugoslavia
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Former Yugoslavia Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Former Yugoslavia
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Former Yugoslavia Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Former Yugoslavia
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Former Yugoslavia "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Former Yugoslavia
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Former Yugoslavia We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Former Yugoslavia
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Former Yugoslavia There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown 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 Former Yugoslavia
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Former Yugoslavia 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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Former Yugoslavia
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Former Yugoslavia Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Former Yugoslavia
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Former Yugoslavia "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Former Yugoslavia
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Former Yugoslavia The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Former Yugoslavia
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Former Yugoslavia "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Former Yugoslavia
