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Diamond Way Buddhism - The Diamond Way Karma Kagyu Buddhist Center of Moscow.
Christian Philosophy - Theology of Russian History - About the sense of the newest Russian history (history as a susbject of Orthodox Christian theology) with their practical applications.
International Baptist Fellowship Moscow - An evangelical Protestant church dedicated to strengthening God's church through making disciple makers. Most members are expatriates from a variety of countries and denominations.
Pravoslavie.Ru - Orthodox Christian in Russia: events, history, theology, culture.
Slavonic Era - A draft of Slavonic Constitution for the Russian Federation.
Datsan Kuntsechoinei - Buddhist monastery in St.Petersburg - the Gelugpa, tradition of burjat-mongolian-tibetan buddhism
Christian Icon - Gallery of world-famous icons presented by the Center of East-Christian Culture.
A History of the Russian Church - An overview of the spread of Christianity in Russia, from the eighth century to the present. Illustrated, and with a brief bibliography.
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The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Religion He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Religion If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Religion Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Religion The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Religion Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Religion We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Religion Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Religion "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Religion Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Religion Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Religion Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Religion "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Religion One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Religion "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Religion Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Religion If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Religion 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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Religion The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Religion
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