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Christmas City of Finland - Local Christmas traditions and events. [Flash required.]
Turku - An official homepage of the City of Turku. Here you find information about different services as well as statistics in various topics. A list of pictures from the city and its surroundings.
Turku Art Museum - Presents current exhibitions, history of the museum and the collection.
Turku Jazz - Promoting jazz music in the area. Pictures of their annual happening.
Elysée Arena - Hosts ice hockey games, concerts, balls and other events. Maps, restaurants, box seats and meeting rooms.
FMI - Local Weather - Five-day forecast and recent observations.
Turku Tournament - Annual youth ice hockey tournament. Timetable, rules and entry form.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Turku Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Turku No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Turku The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Turku [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Turku "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) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Turku Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Turku Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex Turku A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Turku The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson 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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Turku "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Turku Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Turku Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Turku Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Turku He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Turku The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Turku He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Turku 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Turku The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Turku "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 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner 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 Turku A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Turku "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Turku
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