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	Institute of Public Affairs (IVO) - Research institute and think tank. Contains articles in English, descriptions of publications, extensive survey results and political analysis in Slovak.
	Slovak Academic Information Agency - Service Center for the Third Sector (SAIS - SCTS) - Publications and information on non-governmental organizations and academic exchange.
	Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia - Independent educational organization providing training, consultation, and facilitation services to not-for-profit organizations in Slovakia and other European countries.
	Slovak Governance Institute - A non-profit think tank focused on reforms of public services in Slovakia. Contains publications on public policy issues in public administration, education, science and technology, public finances management.
	Transparency International Slovakia - Chapter of the international non-governmental organisation focused on fighting corruption in public life in Slovakia. Site provides extensive research and monitoring on corruption.
	Central European Institute for Economic and Social Reforms - An economic and public policy research institute devoted to "making the public familiar with the nature of economic and social processes in Slovakia and abroad". Contains research, information on projects.
	Presov Civic Forum (POF) - Non-governmental civic association in Eastern Slovakia aiming to promote the development of democracy. Contains overview of activities, staff, events and donors.
	Slovak Foreign Policy Association - A non-governmental organisation focused on international affairs and security policy, particularly with respect to Slovakia and Central Europe. Contains information on events and publications, directory of Slovak NGOs involved in European Affairs.
	Association of Asset Management Companies - Provides information on association members and rules and basic statistics on the Slovak investment funds industry.
	Kalligram Foundation - Center for Legal Analyses - Provides commentary, publications and analysis focusing on humen rights and minority legislation.
	People and Water - Non-governental organization focused on water issues. Contains news and photo gallery.
	The Women Parliament of Slovakia - Non-governmental organization aiming to address gender issues in Slovakia. Contains declarations and statements on women's issues.
	InfoRoma Foundation - Collects information on and organizes programs related to the Roma minority. Contains project descriptions and general information on Roma in Slovakia.
	League of Human Rights Advocates - Non-governmental organization focused on human rights monitoring in Slovakia. Contains police and court monitoring reports.
	Memorial of the Slovak Cross for Ecumenical Unity - The Slovak Cross for Ecumenical Unity will be a special memorial near Dolny Kubin, Slovakia, for Christians throughout Slovakia and the whole world.
	Youth Council of Slovakia (YCS) - Umbrella organisation of children and youth advocacy groups. Site details the group's positions on youth policy, its local and national activities, and its participation in international forums. Statues and partners also listed.
	The Milan Simecka Foundation - Charitable foundation focused on human rights and helping the Slovak Roma. Contains description of programs.

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(John Ruskin) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Organizations "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Organizations 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 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Organizations "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Organizations Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Organizations You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Organizations I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Organizations Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Organizations Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Organizations History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Organizations Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Organizations When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Organizations "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Organizations Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Ana�s Nin "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Organizations "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." 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