Kosovo Conflict - A Balkan Tragedy - Challenging the image held by the public of both the Serbs and the nature of US and NATO intervention in the Balkans.
Group of Young Ecologists - Describes the organization's plans and activities, with an emphasis on lobbying activities in Kosova. Projects centers on youth involvement in conservation.
Kosovo Web Portal - Project by International Politics Working Group featuring maps, news and articles.
Kosovo War and Peace - Categorized links on the Kosovo conflict and the present situation.
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r 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 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Society and Culture
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Society and Culture The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and My other wife is beautiful. Society and Culture
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Society and Culture "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Society and Culture
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Society and Culture
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 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 Society and Culture
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show 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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Society and Culture You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Society and Culture
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "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 Society and Culture It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society and Culture
