American Citizens Abroad - A nonprofit association dedicated to serving and defending the interests of individual US citizens worldwide.
Pro Natura - Founded to create the only Swiss National Park (Created 1914). It currently proposes a second park. Activities, publications.
Dongari Switzerland - Swiss Association for Korean adoptees. Includes presentation of the history and agenda of this club.
Medicus Mundi Switzerland - Swiss network of organizations for international cooperation in health care. Member organizations, news.
Tibetan Monastic Institute, Rikon - Tibetan Institute is a foundation with the aim of providing spiritual and cultural help to Tibetans exiled in Switzerland and also of maintaining and continuing the care of the Tibetan culture for the benefit of future generations of Tibetan people.
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Organizations "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Organizations
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Organizations Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Organizations
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Organizations Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Organizations
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Organizations There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Organizations "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Organizations
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Organizations In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Organizations
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Organizations Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Organizations
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) 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 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Organizations "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Organizations
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Organizations 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 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organizations
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Organizations I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Organizations
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Organizations Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Organizations
