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The City of Kuopio - General city information, its history, services and sights. Link to the fire department's own site.
Kuopio Technology Centre Teknia Oy - Premises and other services for technology companies. Directory of participating companies.
Minimi - Dance theatre company. Includes repertoire and performance calendar.
Pohjois-Savo Health Care District - Provides information about research and services at Kuopio University Hospital.
Adventure Kuopio - Offering snowmobile and motorboat safaris, fishing and adventure holidays. Includes details of packages.
Kuopio Student Housing Company - Provides information on available appartments in the area.
Kuopio Marathon - Offers brief information including start times and entry form.
Kuopio Dance Festival - Annual event in June. Includes event programme and ticket information.
Lions Club Kuopio - Includes activities and member listings.
Culture.Kuopio.fi - Provides information about museums, libraries, theatre and music in the municipality.
Kuopio Region - Tourist guide covering events, eating out, accommodation, shopping, attractions and activities.
Pohjois-Savo Polytechnic - Degree programs in six fields of study. Includes course information and contact details.
Ertec Trading - Distributor of Etap sailing boats, also trading in second hand machines and vehicles, and timber products. Provides information about each division.
Vesimatkailu Savolax Oy - Boat rental agency also offering fishing trips. Includes boat specifications and photos.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Kuopio "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Kuopio The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Kuopio I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Kuopio "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Kuopio Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Kuopio As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Kuopio "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Kuopio "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Kuopio And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Kuopio "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Kuopio Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Kuopio All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Kuopio He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Kuopio Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Kuopio "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Kuopio "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Kuopio "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Kuopio "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Kuopio Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Kuopio Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kuopio Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Kuopio
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