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HaramLink - Provides tools and assistance offered by Haram Municipality to promote international trade and co-operation. Other regions are welcome to share our knowledge and expertise.
AgderLink - Tools and assistance offered by Vest-Agder County Council, to promote international trade and co-operation.
norwayonline.no - A one-stop knowledge resource to find facts, figures and background on Norway. Has links to major companies listed by industry category. Articles with in-depth information.
A Lawyer's Guide to Norway - A general guide to certain laws applicable to doing business. Covers investment principles and general considerations, investment frame work, sensitive areas, direct sales, exports from Norway, representatives, distributors, franchisers, intellectual property.
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Resources Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. 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Mencken The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo 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 Resources I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Resources Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Resources There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Resources They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Resources "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Resources "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Resources In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Resources "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Resources Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Resources "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Resources "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Resources Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Resources We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Resources There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Resources "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Resources We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." 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