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Philanthropy and Volunteering Links

Friends of Romania - Nonprofit organization providing economic assistance to Romanian NGOs and a social network for RPCVs who served in Romania.
Fundatia New Life - A UK and Romanian charity providing support to handicapped and orphaned young people in Slobozia, Romania.
Link Romania Moldavia Foundation - A Christian charity working with poor and needy families in north eastern Romania.
Relief Fund for Romania - Community based projects supporting street children, the sick, the elderly and destitute communities.
Romania Information at Cleaford - Links to charities and missions working in Romania.
Good Samaritan Beius - Non profit organization providing disadvantaged orphans with a chance to learn job and life skills.
Romanian Angel Appeal - A charity focusing on medical, social and psychological services for children and young people affected by HIV/AIDS. [English/Romanian]
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Philanthropy and Volunteering "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Philanthropy and Volunteering "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Philanthropy and Volunteering If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Philanthropy and Volunteering "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Philanthropy and Volunteering I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Philanthropy and Volunteering Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Philanthropy and Volunteering There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates 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 Philanthropy and Volunteering Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Philanthropy and Volunteering We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Philanthropy and Volunteering "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Philanthropy and Volunteering "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Philanthropy and Volunteering In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Philanthropy and Volunteering "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Philanthropy and Volunteering "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Philanthropy and Volunteering In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Philanthropy and Volunteering Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Philanthropy and Volunteering "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Philanthropy and Volunteering Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Philanthropy and Volunteering Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Philanthropy and Volunteering A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Philanthropy and Volunteering Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Philanthropy and Volunteering
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