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Santa Claus Plaza - Christmas traditions and animations by the Santa Claus Foundation, an organization promoting the image of Finland as the real Christmasland.
Virtual Finland: Arts and Culture - Includes several articles written by leading experts plus the best Finnish links.
Finnish Design in the New Millennium - A comprehensive article on Finnish design written by Jarno Peltonen, director, Finnish Museum of Art and Design.
Finland Festivals - Cooperation organization for the principal cultural events in Finland. Listings about 60 festivals.
Finpop.net - Interviews of musical artists, cartoonists and directors.
Kulttuuri.net - Directory for Finnish culture, including art, dance, design, film, literature, music, theatre, photography and architecture.
The Ministry of Education Finland: Culture - Describes the ministry's role in promoting and developing culture and provides related links. Includes libraries, museums, literature, music, art, theatre, dance and film.
Finn Film - Entertainment and news magazine focussing on film making and music.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Arts and Entertainment People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Arts and Entertainment Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Arts and Entertainment A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Arts and Entertainment "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Arts and Entertainment 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 To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Arts and Entertainment The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Arts and Entertainment "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Arts and Entertainment "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Arts and Entertainment Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Arts and Entertainment When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Arts and Entertainment "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Arts and Entertainment Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Arts and Entertainment The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Arts and Entertainment Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Arts and Entertainment Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Arts and Entertainment "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Arts and Entertainment
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