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Nobel Peace Prize, The - Web site of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Nobel Peace Prize.
ODIN Norway - The official information web site of the Norwegian Government.
Norway Post - Information about the Norwegian postal service, including the philatelic service. (Information in Norwegian and English.)
Statistics Norway (Statistisk Sentralbyrå - SSB) - Norway's central institution for producing official statistics. SSB is an independent institution under the Ministry of Finance.
Pollution Control Authority - A subordinate agency of the Ministry of the Environment. Its main tasks are to combat pollution, noise and waste, and to regulate the use of environmentally hazardous substances and products.
Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergency Planning - The official site of the DCDEP, the directorate responsible for emergency contingency planning. (Site in Norwegian and English.)
Ministry of Agriculture - Responsible for the coordination and administration of all public activities in the agricultural sector.
Directorate of Customs and Excise - Information about Norwegian customs regulations.
Stortinget - The Norwegian Parliament - Official site with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway, rules of procedure, general information and history, presidium and administration.
Directorate for Cultural Heritage - The Directorate's task is to facilitate sound and efficient management throughout the country and to ensure that monuments and sites everywhere are given equitable treatment as far as possible.
Ministry of Defence - Contains facts and figures, links to speeches, news, and information about military service in Norway.
eNorway - A strategic document outlining the official policy on the information society. Published by the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Directorate of Immigration - Responsible for implementing Norways immigration policy.
The Royal House of Norway - Information and history of the Norwegian Monarchy, the Royal Family, the Royal Palace and other properties.
Supreme Court - Pronounces judgement in the final instance. It follows that the Supreme Court is Norways most superior court, and that its jurisdiction encompasses the entire country.
Water Resources and Energy Directorate - The directorate is responsible for administrating the nations water and energy resources.
Norwegian Meteorological Institute (DNMI) - The DNMI provides the public meteorological services for both civil and military purposes.
National Archives of Norway - The Norwegian State Archives System, covering the central administrative institutions, and the eight regional state archives, covering the local branches of the state administration.
Norwegian Media Ownership Authority: The Media Directory - A data base containing information about Norwegian media and their owners. The directory includes more than 220 newspapers, 220 radio stations, 30 television stations and 1500 media owners.
The Norwegian Advisory Council on Bankruptcy - The Council is appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and consists of representatives from the courts, lawyers, accountants, the administrative authority and the public prosecutor. Information about legal issues.
Ministry of Finance - Responsible for implementing economic policies and budgets, also provide information services.
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, The - Established by the Parliament in 1959 for the purpose of promoting a better understanding of international issues in Norway.
Royal Norwegian Mint - Coin and medal production and sales. Information about Norway's circulating coins and a numismatic dictionary.
Norway.no - Official gateway to public services and public information in Norway.
Norwegian Board of Health - Supervises the health services in Norway.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Government "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Government A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Government "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Government "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Government Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Government Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Government The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Government "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Government The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Government "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Government A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Government A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Government Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Government Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Government "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Government The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Government "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Government Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Government The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Government
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