Jemstone - Media training and development network that links sixty of the main media organizations in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.
Medina - Mediterranean Documentation and Information Network Association. Provides information about the non-EU countries in the Mediterranean region.
Mediterranean Quarterly - A forum for commentary and a source of deep analysis. It delivers global issues with a Mediterranean slant and regional struggles of global impact.
Radio Caroline South - Provides the Radio Caroline network with programming and a relay for the French and Italian Rivieras via The Breeze 88.4. With online broadcast, music, news and links.
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner News and Media To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen News and Media
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's News and Media
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain News and Media I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau News and Media
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana News and Media "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky News and Media
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "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 News and Media I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday News and Media Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 News and Media
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack News and Media When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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 "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 News and Media
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "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) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland News and Media "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower News and Media
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz News and Media "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) News and Media
