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	The Languedoc Page - Information on living in this region, including average temperatures, buying a property and major industries.
	Life in France - A personal guide offers information on buying and renting a property, finding a job and other subjects related to France. Also contains information on regional wines and recipes.
	Paris Voice - An online magazine aimed at English speakers in Paris. Contains a calendar of events as well as general information on living in the French capital.
	France Newcomers Club Directory - A directory designed to give people the opportunity to meet and develop friendships with others who live in France.
	France Gate - Contains contact details for international schools, and clearly explains the French administration system.
	Paris-Anglo Discussions - Forum threads on finding jobs, obtaining visas, current events, sightseeing, and making friends.
	Toulouse Baby Net - Information on having a baby in and around Toulouse. Details of English speaking doctors available.
	Kiwis in France - A meeting-place for New Zealanders (Kiwis) living in France. Provides information on obtaining different types of visas.
	Paris Loisirs Culturels - Details on language services, art courses, relaxation sessions, card parties, gatherings for French and English speakers; located in Paris.
	Paris Woman Journal - Provide information that enables women in the English-speaking community to live, network and work comfortably in Paris.
	Living and Working in France - Information about income tax, immigration, renting and other aspects of life in France, also including useful links.
	How to live, work and buy real-estate in France - Use my experience to ensure your transition is a success. Be informed before you arrive. I can advise you about living, working and buying in France.
	A Good Start in France - Relocation Services - Offers full relocation assistance to Paris and other major cities in France. Personalized services include: orientation, home-finding, immigration, assistance...
	Living and Working in France - Information about income tax, immigration, renting and other aspects of life in France, also including useful links. By Finn Skovgaard.

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(Don Herold) Expatriate Life I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Expatriate Life Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Expatriate Life Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Expatriate Life If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Expatriate Life Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Expatriate Life Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Expatriate Life A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Expatriate Life In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland 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 Uncl Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Expatriate Life Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Expatriate Life Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Expatriate Life If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "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) Expatriate Life A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Expatriate Life Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Expatriate Life "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) 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 Expatriate Life This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Expatriate Life Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Expatriate Life Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Expatriate Life Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. 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