Greenpeace Mediterranean - Section of Greenpeace focused on four Mediterranean issues: toxic pollution, destructive fisheries, the threat to wildlife habitats and the potentially catastrophic presence of nuclear installations, weapons and waste.
Mediterranean and Black Sea Regional Tolerance Network - Conclusions of the International Meeting of Experts for the Establishment of a Mediterranean and Black Sea Regional Network Against Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence, organized by the UNESCO (Barcelona, September 1996).
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-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
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-- Schopenhauer The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- Mother Teresa A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
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I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President My other wife is beautiful. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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-- Voltaire We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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-- H. L. Mencken 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:
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-- Anthony Burgess Society and Culture Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
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-- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
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-- Tom Robbins Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
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Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual 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 Society and Culture A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
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