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Krista's HomePage - young Latvian girl conquers the WWW
Virtual Livonia - A site devoted to the minority indigenous Livonian nation residing in Latvia.
The Latvian Language - A Short History of the Latvian Language. The Sounds of the Latvian Language. Materials for Learning Latvian.
Museums of Latvia - Homepage of the Latvian Museum Association. The site holds information on over 100 various museums from every district in Latvia.
Riga VI Seventh-day Adventist Church - Mission, worship schedule, discussion forum, photo gallery, address, contacts.
Saldus Invalids' Society - Organization aiding the disabled in Saldus district. Information about projects, activities, and rights included.
Latvians Online - Magazine for and about Latvians around the world, with news, chat and classifieds.
Consumer Guide - Offers information about legal rights and product safety. Also, conducts investigation on consumer issues.
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Society and Culture "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Society and Culture Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Society and Culture Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau 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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf Society and Culture "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 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 Society and Culture Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Society and Culture "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Society and Culture Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Society and Culture Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Society and Culture There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Society and Culture It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Society and Culture A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Society and Culture Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Society and Culture A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Society and Culture "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Society and Culture "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Society and Culture
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