Portaanpää Christian Institute - Boarding school which functions as a hotel in the summer. Provides brief information in English.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Lapinlahti "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Lapinlahti
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Lapinlahti "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Lapinlahti
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Lapinlahti "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Lapinlahti
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Lapinlahti The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Lapinlahti Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Lapinlahti
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Lapinlahti Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Lapinlahti
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Lapinlahti "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Lapinlahti If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Lapinlahti
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Lapinlahti Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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 Lapinlahti
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lapinlahti To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Lapinlahti
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Lapinlahti "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Lapinlahti
