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Bulgaria - Contact details for and consular information from the Bulgarian Embassy in Oslo.
Canada - Located in Oslo. Offers a calendar of events, information about the Canadian community in Norway, and trade and investment tips.
China - Includes a brief description of the Chinese North Pole Research Station in the Svalbard Islands.
Egypt - Contains information about the people at the embassy, facts about Egypt, travel and tourism, and trade and economy.
Indonesia - Indonesian Embassy in Oslo, accredited to Norway and Iceland, offering a mailing list, visa information, and basic facts about Indonesia.
Iran - Includes description of the embassy's structure and services, information for tourists, news, facts about Iran and the situation of Iranian women.
Netherlands - Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Oslo. Includes contact information for the consulates in Bergen, Bod, Drammen, Fredrikstad, Hammerfest, Kristiansand-S, Larvik, Stavanger, Troms, Trondheim, and the Consulate-General in Reykjavik.
Russia - Embassy of the Russian Federation in Oslo, with information about Russian representation in Norway, Russian-Norwegian relations, press releases from the embassy and consular services.
United Kingdom - Details of Embassy services and general information about Britain and the Embassy. In English and Norwegian.
United States - With information about consular services.
South Korea - Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Kingdom of Norway, with information on official and economic Korean-Norwegian relations.
Sri Lanka - Lists the staff and the contact details of the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Oslo.
Japan - Embassy of Japan in Norway, with events and news, visa/consular and information section, message board, and news.
Romania - Embassy of Romania to the Kingdom of Norway. Has information on the coat of arms, the flag, and the national anthem.
Latvia - With contact details for the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Norway, and also for the Latvian Honorary Consulate General in Oslo, and the Latvian Honorary Consulates in Kristiansand, Bergen, and Rogaland.
Iceland - Embassy of Iceland in Oslo, accredited to Norway, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Macedonia, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. With consular information, and more in Norwegian and Icelandic.
Czech Republic - Embassy of the Czech Republic in Oslo, and accredited to Norway and Iceland. Lists bilateral agreements with the Kingdom of Norway and with the Republic of Iceland.
Belgium - Office hours and contact details for the Embassy of Belgium in Oslo, Norway.
Italy - Italian Embassy in Oslo, accredited to Norway and Iceland. Features description of consular services, business information, press releases and general information.
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Foreign Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Foreign "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Foreign "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Foreign "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Foreign When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Foreign 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 The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Foreign Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins 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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Foreign The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Foreign Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Foreign There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Foreign University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Foreign Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein Foreign What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Foreign Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Foreign "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Foreign Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Foreign Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Foreign "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Foreign I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Foreign I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Foreign There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Foreign
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