Pirkkala - Brief overview of the local traffic connections, history, inhabitants, economy, nature, culture and municipal services.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Pirkkala Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Pirkkala
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 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Pirkkala It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th 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 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Pirkkala Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 Pirkkala
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Pirkkala Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pirkkala
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Pirkkala Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Pirkkala
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Pirkkala 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 Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Pirkkala Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Pirkkala
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pirkkala Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Pirkkala
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Pirkkala Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Pirkkala
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Pirkkala Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "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) Pirkkala
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Pirkkala Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pirkkala
