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Yugoslav Royal Family - Information on Crown Prince Alexander, head of the Yugoslav Royal Family, and their home in Belgrade.
The Braindrain Project - Maintaining communication between young professionals who have left Yugoslavia in the past ten years and their colleagues in the country.
Children - Dedicated to the children affected by the NATO aggression on the FRY.
Yugoslav Commission for UNESCO - List of cultural heritage damaged in the war.
Jurist World Law: Yugoslavia - Special reports from correspondents and directory of information on all aspects of law in Yugoslavia. From Jurist: the Legal Education Network at University of Pittsburgh.
Ethnologue guide to Yugoslavia - Part of Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 13th Edition; Barbara F. Grimes, Editor; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996.
Astrocartography of Yugoslavia - Based on the proclamation of The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 27 April 1992. From "Transcendental Nations": Charts of nations and mundane events, by Robert Couteau.
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Society and Culture Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Society and Culture All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso 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 Society and Culture "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Society and Culture "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Society and Culture Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Society and Culture If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Society and Culture The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Society and Culture A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Society and Culture "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Society and Culture What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Society and Culture Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous 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 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Society and Culture If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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