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Denmark - Royal Danish Embassy in Riga. Includes news, description of bilateral relations and assistance, consular information and related links.
Finland - Finnish Embassy in Latvia. Features brief description of Finland's foreign policy, information about consular affairs, and about Finland and Latvia.
Norway - Contact information for and office hours of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Riga, with more content in Norwegian.
United Kingdom - British Embassy Riga, providing visa, commercial and consular services, and details of UK-Latvian bilateral relations and cooperation.
Ukraine - Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Latvia, with contact details and occasional press releases.
United States - With a complete list of U.S.-Latvian treaties. In English and Latvian.
Canada - Canadian Embassy located in Riga and accredited to Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. In English, French, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian.
Netherlands - Netherlands Embassy in Riga, with a description of the embassy, information about bilateral assistance and relations, details of consular affairs, and about the restitution of art objects lost during WW2.
Estonia - Estonian Embassy in Riga, with a history of political, cultural and educational relations between these neighbours. In English, Estonian, Latvian and Russian.
European Commission - Delegation of the European Commission to Latvia, with a history of EU-latvian relations, and a list of agreements.
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Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Foreign Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Foreign "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham Foreign Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Foreign Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Foreign "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Foreign "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Foreign "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Foreign Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Foreign "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Foreign A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Foreign You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. 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The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Foreign Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Foreign
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