The Jewish Community - Information about Jews and Jewish institutions in Norway. Calendar, tourist information and contact persons. (Site is in English and Norwegian.)
Haṣṣafón - Resource site for Jewish religion and culture from a mainly Sephardic point of view. Candlelighting times for Scandinavia. (In English and Norwegian.)
Odin: Christianity in Norway - London, 994 A.D. Kneeling at the baptismal font is Olav Tryggvason, a Norwegian-born Viking. Twice, he and his men have conquered Southeast England, and twice King Ethelred of England had to pay a huge ransom to get the Vikings to return their spoils. But now Olav Tryggvason has become a Christian.
Islamic Cultural Centre Norway - Features information about the centre's activities, Islam in Norway, and Kashmir. (In Norwegian, Urdu, and English.)
Oslo Buddhistsenter - Introduction to buddhism, meditation, updated information about activities and links to relevant sites.
Oslo Muslim Network - With news, mailing lists, and links to Oslo area mosques and muslim organizations.
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-- John Barrymore - last words blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Religion He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Religion
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Religion Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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work and the Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Religion
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
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-- Josh Billings The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Cynthia H Religion
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "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) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Religion "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
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flattens the stomachs.
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I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
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-- Tom Stoppard The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Religion No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey 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 Religion
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Religion It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Religion
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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-- Mark Twain "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Religion
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Religion I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Religion You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Religion
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Religion Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Religion
