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St-Petersburg Buddhist Monastery - Buddhist Traditional of Russia (the Gelugpa tradition of Buryat-Mongolian-Tibetan Buddhism). This site contains an appeal for help. The beautiful St-Petersburg Temple (built in the late 1800s) has fallen victim to the horrible loss of civil society that has occurred since the end of the Soviet Union.
English-Russian Communication Club - Small group of mostly Russian people who gather in St.Petersburg to practice English. Contact information.
GAOORDI - Saint Petersburg Association of Societies of Parents with Handicapped Children. Unites seventy-five public organizations assisting more than fifteen thousand families with disabled children.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Society and Culture Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Society and Culture There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Society and Culture The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence 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 Society and Culture Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Society and Culture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Society and Culture Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Society and Culture blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Society and Culture Marriage is a rest period between romances. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Society and Culture A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Society and Culture 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 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Society and Culture I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw 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 The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni Society and Culture "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "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) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Society and Culture Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening 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 Society and Culture And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture
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