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City of Vaasa - General information about the city, its sights and events. List of educational institutions.
FMI - Local Weather - Five-day forecast and recent observations.
Wildlife Vaasa - Competitive event for nature filmmakers. Background information, schedule, jury details, sponsors, accommodations, and links.
Vaasa Engineering - Specialises in design, project management and engineering of power plant and industrial control, automation and electrification. Includes products, services, news and career opportunities.
Vaasa Mechanics Oy - Specializes in design and production of sheet metal components to customer requirements. Main operations are punching and bending. Site includes example of street parking sign.
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Vaasa If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Vaasa Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Vaasa A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Vaasa Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Vaasa 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. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Vaasa "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) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Vaasa Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess "Think off-center." (George Carlin) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Vaasa "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Vaasa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Vaasa Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Vaasa Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Vaasa In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Vaasa Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Vaasa The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Vaasa Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 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 Vaasa Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Vaasa We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Vaasa "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Vaasa Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Vaasa "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Vaasa Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Vaasa
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