European Internet Foundation ( EIF ) - EIF helps shape European Union policy for e-commerce, e-democracy and the digital revolution. It is led by Members of the European Parliament, and supported by internet companies, academics, and public bodies.
Prisma - Research project with the aim to systematically analysize the impact of new information and communication technologies on citizens' services in Europe.
Politeia - A virtual network organization of more than 1000 persons and institutions wishing to cooperate to enhance citizenship and democracy at European level.
Mobilizing Young Women for Equality in Europe - The results of a broad mobilization of young women in all countries of the European Union to discuss equality of women and men and strategies to integrate their concerns in all areas. [Multi-lingual]
European Network for Democracy - Purpose of the project is to promote cooperation between NGOs in the post-communist countries of Europe. Project introduction and searchable database.
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
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-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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-- Robert Frost Issues
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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-- Walter Winchell Issues
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
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-- Oscar Wilde If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
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-- Aldous Huxley Issues
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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