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Institute of Migration - General information about international and internal migration. Immigration and emigration statistics. Articles on Finnish migration during the years.
Kela: The Social Insurance Institution - Social security in Finland.
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry - Facts and figures about the countryside. Veterinary services, control of foodstuffs, fisheries, game management, natural resources and land survey.
Office of the Chancellor of Justice - Official site for the Office of the Chancellor of Justice in Finland. Instructions for filing a citizen's complaint.
Ministry of Labour - Official Ministry of Labour in Finland site. Employment bulletin issues since January 1998.
The Ministry of Transport and Communication - Official Ministry of Transport and Communication of Finland.
The President of Finland - About the President and the official residences. List of Finnish Presidents in the past and present. Read some speeches made by the president.
The Police of Finland - Organization, duties and license services.
Ministry of Justice - Duties, legal systems and prison services.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs - Official Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland site.
The Finnish Government - The official site for the government and ministries. Basic information, news and history.
Prime Minister's Office - Official Prime Minister's Office of Finland site. Organization, news and contacts. Contains links to Council of State, President of the Republic and Parliament.
Parliament of Finland - Finnish Parliament. Members, facts, election guide, and some statistics.
Ministry of Education - Official Ministry of Education site. Facts about copyright, research, culture, youth and sports in Finland.
Ministry of the Interior - Official Ministry of the Interior of Finland site. Links to State Provincial Offices, State Local Offices, Population Register Centre, Directorate of Immigration, Police, Rescue Services and Frontier Guard.
Financial Supervision Authority - Supervises about five hundred entities, including banks, brokerage firms, stock and derivatives exchanges, and management companies for mutual funds. Operates in connection with the Bank of Finland but is an independent decision making body.
Ministry of Defence - Information on the defense policy, press releases and publications.
Ministry of Trade and Industry - Information about technology and consumer policies, services to enterprises and news.
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health - Official Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland site. Health, insurance, social insurance, environmental and safety information. Socius Finland journal subscription.
The Ombudsman for Equality - Independent authority monitoring compliance with the Act on Equality between Women and Men. Includes details of publications and court decisions.
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Government "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) 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 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Government 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 I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Government Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Government "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) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw "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 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Government Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Government Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Government There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Government How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Government University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger 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 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Government Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Government If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Government University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Government Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Government If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Government The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H Government Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Government This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Government An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller Government blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Government May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Government If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Government
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