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Stephanie in Romania - Stephanie, an American Peace Corps worker in Romania shares her experiences.

Sirbu, Nicolae - A graphic artist based in Bucharest.

Szász, Attila - Personal information, computers, studies, hobbies and photographs.

Stan, Adrian - Contains a collection of images taken from various trips. Includes both photographs and video clips with audio.

Sârbu, Dan-Ioan - Includes information about personal travels, literature and family. [English/Romanian]

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) S All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard S A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. S Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X S Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) S "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) S The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) S A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr S Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley S "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost S Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln S "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. S The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous S When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise S Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) S "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) S The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with S Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p S Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John S Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short S As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs S
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