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Traditions Links

	The Romanian Village - The aim of this project is to make known the southeastern Transilvanian region. We believe the media has been ignoring the village and the traditional customs from this part of the country, although interesting and original. The villages we are presenting have preserved on a great extent the customs, the traditional clothing and even the old way of working the land. The main objective is to open a collection of 50-60 photographs...
	A Romanian Cookbook - Indexed by food categories.
	Romania Christmas - Discussion of food and recipes

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Traditions This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Traditions Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Traditions Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Traditions Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Traditions Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Traditions I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Traditions Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Traditions Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Traditions Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Traditions Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Traditions "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Traditions An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen 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. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Traditions Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Traditions Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Traditions Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Traditions "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Traditions The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Traditions "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Traditions Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Traditions By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Traditions When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Traditions Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |