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	REAP International - A people-to-people non-profit organization working to help villages survive in the Lake Baikal region. Delivering programs to improve rural conditions, promote environmental and civic activism by women and young people, and strengthen village schools to be effective service providers for their communities.
	OWL - Open Women Line - A social, information and networking internet resource for women's organisations within Russia. Also aims to encourage communication at an international level. Text in Russian and English.
	Women and Business in Russia - The official site of Women & Business in Russia Association
	Children of Russia - Charity organization benefitting orphans in Russia.
	Global Jewish Assistance and Relief Network - A non-profit organization dedicated to providing non-sectarian humanitarian assistance and medical relief throughout the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, with the primary focus in Russia and Ukraine.
	Spasenie - Charity Fund - Social support and protection of people, improvement of material status and social rehabilitation of undeveloped work-less or disabled persons, who can not realize their law rights and interests themselves.
	Potential - St.Petersburg Charity Fund of Disability - Charitable fund Potential specializes on social servicing the elderly blinds of people, searches for sponsors and contribution, volunteer of agency and nonprofit organizations.
	The St.Andrew Society - Organized to promote the Scot's identity and customs in Russia through fellowship between Scots, Russian nationals and citizens of all other countries who love Scotland. Offers lineage and non-lineage memberships, dancing, benefit programs, and links to Scottish sites.
	Charity to Children Fund - Objective of protecting childhood and seeing the UN Convention of Children's Rights fulfilled on the territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Organizations The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Organizations Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Organizations "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Organizations Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Organizations I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be Organizations Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Spinster: A bachelor's wife. 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 Organizations "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Organizations An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Organizations My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Organizations A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin 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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Organizations What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Organizations Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Organizations Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Organizations The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Organizations I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Organizations If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Organizations My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Organizations I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Organizations In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Organizations NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Organizations And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. 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