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People Going Global - Collection of commented links to sites dealing with subjects such as culture and government.
Newcomers Club Directory for Denmark - Helps integrate new residents into the local community through social events, interest groups and children's activities.
Denmark - Official Denmark site developed by the Danish State. Provides news, articles, map, history, facts on economy and links.
The Danish Mother's group - The Danish Mother's group for women in the New York area.
NiceToMeetYou - A easy online introduction service for english speaking people living in Denmark. Romance, activity partners, socializing after work and family friendship.
Tax Nazi - The truth about taxes Denmark, and how they practise economical facism.
Danish-Papua New Guinean Friendship Association - Promotes intercultural understanding through public meetings and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
British Council - Denmark - United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations.
The Danish Page - Very critical views on Denmark, its taxes, and Danes' mentality.
Human Rights, Law, Taxes and Injustice in Denmark - A Dane describes how - three decades after emigrating from Denmark - he was suddenly considered resident in Denmark and ruined by an unfair trial that ripped him of his life's savings.
Astrology Voyage - Your Personal Astrology Report - Instantly created.
Danish Irish Society - The aims of the society are to develop cultural, social and general relations between Ireland and Denmark.
Weapons.dk - The site contains some of the weapons made in the 20th century.
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Society and Culture Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston Society and Culture To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) 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 "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) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Society and Culture Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb 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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Society and Culture A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Society and Culture "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Society and Culture Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Society and Culture The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Society and Culture "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Society and Culture "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Society and Culture All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Society and Culture It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Society and Culture "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Society and Culture "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Society and Culture "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein 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 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Society and Culture Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Society and Culture "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Society and Culture
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