Bank of Estonia - Daily FX fixings, monetary policy framework, Estonian banking system, Estonian banknotes and coins, papers on the EU accession process.
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Riigikogu - Parliament of Estonia. Official site with introduction, directory of members, committees, history of Toompea castle.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Government Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Government
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Government All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Government
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Government "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Government
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Government Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Government
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Government It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Government
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Government We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Government
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Government Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "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) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Government
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Government
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Government The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Government
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Government "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "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 Government
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Government
