Verla Mill Museum - An old groundwood and board mill included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. History, architecture, machines and devices. Prehistoric rock paintings nearby.
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Jaala I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Jaala
Marriage is a rest period between romances. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Jaala Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Jaala
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Jaala Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Jaala
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Jaala Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "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) Jaala
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Jaala "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Jaala
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Jaala "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Jaala
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Jaala I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Jaala
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Jaala I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Jaala
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Jaala We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Jaala
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "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) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Jaala Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Jaala
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Jaala "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Jaala
