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Bran, Ovidiu - Includes a list of hobbies, interests, friends, his resume, and a collection of links.
Badea, Claudiu - Contains information on the site owner, vacations, links and friends. [English/Romanian]
Barsan, Vasile - A personal projection - Personal information and photographs. Java enabled browser required.
Bindeanu, Ioan - A selection of photgraphs. [May not work with all browsers]
Balaci, Petre - A personal page, information about me, pictures and contact.
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain B Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams B blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous B "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash B "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot B Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) B Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. B "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen B Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber B As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola B What's new? Most of my wife. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) B The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow B If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller B My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi B When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown B I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard B "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. B For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde B Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) B Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. B The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) B Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche B
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