Kemeri National Park - Flora and fauna information, geographical details, location and contact addresses, and brief profile. [Latvian, English]
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"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Parks Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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) Parks
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Parks Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Parks
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Parks 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.
-- Crow My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Parks
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Parks When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Parks
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Parks Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Parks
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Parks "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Parks
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Parks "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Parks
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Parks The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Parks
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Parks We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Parks
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 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Parks Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Parks
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi 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 Parks "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Parks
