Matjaz Jeran - A page about mathematics and programming from Slovenia.
Wes Eichenwald - A collection of various writings and photos about Slovenia and other countries, mostly in Central Europe, by an American writer living in Ljubljana.
Aljosa Bavec - Details of personal interests including travel, photography and biochemistry. Stereo picture of heterotrimeric G-protein on site.
Teja Èetina - Teja's homepage has information on music, personal photographs and links.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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-- John Wesley I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot More light!
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-- Abraham Lincoln Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
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-- Will Rogers Personal Pages Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
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-- George Bernard Shaw "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
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Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
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-- Arthur C. Clarke In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Personal Pages
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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