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Latvia In Your Pocket - Useful country information including visa requirements, language, government, history, business listings. Also complete city guides to Riga, Cesis, Jurmala, Kolka, Kuldiga, Latgale, Liepaja, Sigulda, Ventspils and Zemgale.
State Tourism Informational Center - Travel and recreation possibilities in Latvia. Information about Latvian castles and manors.
Lonely Planet: Latvia - Includes demographic information, a map, slide shows, events listings, local attraction destinations, and information on history, culture, and transportation. Part of the Travel Channel.
Travel Latvia - Gives general information about the location of eating places, lodging, maps, conference room rentals, attractions, activities tour guides, and cultural events.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Travel and Tourism "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Travel and Tourism Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Travel and Tourism In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Travel and Tourism "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Travel and Tourism Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Travel and Tourism Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Travel and Tourism Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Travel and Tourism Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. 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