Nutrition in Finland - Information on food consumption, dietary changes and health in Finland provided by the National Public Health Institute, Department of Nutrition.
Finnish Heart Association - Works to prevent cardiovascular diseases and to develop treatment and rehabilitation. Services, news, communications and fundraising.
HL 7 Finland - Information about this open association for organizations and individuals interested in systems integration issues in health care. Information targeted for the local public is mainly in Finnish. Numerous links in English.
Finnish Lifeboat Society Laukaa Branch - Includes detailed textual information as well as a photo gallery of this branch of the Lifeboat Society, based in the village of Laukaa in central Finland.
National Public Health Institute - Presentations of health promotion programs and a publication catalog. Activities of different departments and research groups.
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Health "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Health
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Health Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "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) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Health blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Health
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Health If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Health
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Health When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Health
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Health It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Health
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Health Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Health
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Health "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Health
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Health Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Health
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Health "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Health
