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Slovaks and Slovakia - Includes information about travelling, language, genealogy, art and traditions, and people abroad.
Our Slovakia - Includes genealogy information, recipes, a dictionary and a travel guide.
Slovakia.org: Culture - Information about cultural resources related to Slovakia.
Slovak Republic Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1997 - Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State.
The Slovak Republic Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996 - Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State.
CzechSlovak.com - An online community for people interested in the Czech Republic and Slovakia with forums, e-cards, and a newsletter.
Open Society Foundation (OSF) - Goal is to transform closed societies into open ones. Describes foundation, with annual report, grant application process, and news of current programs. [English/Slovak]
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Society and Culture blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society and Culture "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Society and Culture The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Society and Culture If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Society and Culture A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein Society and Culture Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Society and Culture "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 Society and Culture Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Society and Culture The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Society and Culture I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Society and Culture Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Society and Culture If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Society and Culture Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Society and Culture I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Society and Culture
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