Chechenpress - Official news agency of the Chechen Government opposing Russian forces.
Prague Watchdog - On-line service that collects and disseminates information on the conflict in Chechnya, focusing on human rights, humanitarian aid conditions, media access and coverage.
Kavkaz-Center - International news agency covering events in the Islamic world, Chechnya and Russia.
The Chechen Times - News and comment from the first English language Chechen newspaper.
4Chechnya - Aims to build a community of support for the suffering Chechen people and to provide information on humanitarian aid.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford 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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Chechnya Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Chechnya
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Chechnya "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Chechnya
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Chechnya Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Chechnya
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh 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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Chechnya "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Chechnya
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Chechnya "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Chechnya
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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chechnya Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Chechnya
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Chechnya Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz 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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Chechnya
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Chechnya Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Chechnya
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Chechnya A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Chechnya
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Chechnya A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Chechnya
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Chechnya "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Chechnya
