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Copenhagen City Rotaract Club - Local branch of Rotary international. A club for people between the age of 18 and 30.
Culture House - The Danish Red Cross Culture House is a part of the Danish Red Cross Asylum Department. Through close cooperation, project participation and teaching, the necessary frames are made for development of the skills of each individual asylum seeker.
The Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Belongs under the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy, and is one of a series of agencies, councils and research institutions under the Ministry.
DEA-CCAT - Climate Change Advisory Team of the Danish Energy Agency.
Scandinavian Leather Men - A club in Copenhagen for Leather Men. Club nights are held every Friday. This site has pages in Danish and English.
The Danish Jewish Museum - Museum for Danish Jewish history, art, culture and genealogy.
Danish National Archives - Find information about access to the reading room and how to use it, as well as an introduction to genealogical studies in the Danish archives with special reference to emigrants.
Danish State Archives - Website that is a forum for those who have an active interest in history. Visitors can search for Danish ancestors.
National Survey and Cadastre - Find various kinds of geographic information as well as maps.
International Church of Copenhagen - An ecumenical and international English-language ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America located in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kristuskirken - Copenhagen's First Baptist Church with both International (English), Spanish and a Yugoslavian/Romanian congregation.
Christiania - A guide to the famous freetown in Denmark. Includes citizen homepages, information pages, and event lists.
Geisshirt, Kenneth - Resume, personal information, publications, list of freeware by the author.
Bredesen, Martin - Personal homepage with webcam, pics, chat and more fun stuff.
Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Society and Culture "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Society and Culture Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous Society and Culture You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Society and Culture An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Society and Culture If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Society and Culture If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Society and Culture "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Society and Culture Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) 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 Society and Culture
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