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Russian Culture - Portal about Russian Culture.
Virtual Russia - A virtual community and a discussion forum devoted to Russians and people wanting to learn more about Russia. User-contributed content includes a members' photo gallery, chat, russian language reference, events calendar and photos of Russia.
Funet Russian Archive - This archive is mainly for long-time storage of any electronic Russian related material for scientific and educational use. Available both in English and Russian.
Russian Orphan Opportunity Fund (ROOF) - ROOF provides education and vocational opportunities to Russian Orphans.
Russia at PeopleGoingGlobal.com - Collection of commented links to sites dealing with subjects such as culture and government.
The British Council Russia - Promote long-term educational, scientific and cultural cooperation between Britain and other countries. Their aim is to enhance the reputation of the UK as a valued partner in the world. They have an extensive network of centres, information points and project offices throughout Russia.
Big Russian Soul - Information on the Big Russian Soul.
Russian Empire in photographs - Beautiful photographs representing Russian regions, state institutions, churches, architecture, monuments, families.
Russian Traditions - Russian customs, religion, holidays and traditions.
The stories about Russia - The real stories from my life, from the life of my friends, my familiars and altogether about Russians real life.
Techno Feng Shui - Bringing Feng Shui into modern society by using virtual modeling techniques. Articles and information about workshops in English and Russian.
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Society and Culture However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Society and Culture We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Society and Culture Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Society and Culture The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Society and Culture "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Society and Culture Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Society and Culture "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Society and Culture There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz Society and Culture "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Society and Culture 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Society and Culture Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 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 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Society and Culture "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Society and Culture The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Society and Culture To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Society and Culture Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Society and Culture
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