The Norwegian Historical Data Centre - National institution working to computerize the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries. NDHC is a centre at the University of Tromsø.
National Archives of Norway - Information about the Norwegian State Archives System, covering the national and the regional archives. The archives holds documents back to the Middle Ages and from the union with Denmark up to 1814. The newer archives come from central administrative offices.
The Digital Archive - Information collected from the Norwegian national censuses of 1801, 1865, 1900 and other sources.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Archives Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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-- Walt Kelly Archives
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Remember your dreams.
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Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Archives
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
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-- Mother Teresa Archives Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
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-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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-- ROBERT FROST I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Archives
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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-- Daniel Webster, dying words Archives There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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-- Anonymous Archives
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- Henry Ford I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Archives
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Thoreau Archives The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Archives
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-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Archives
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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