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Virtual Portugal - A comprehensive, searchable guide to the country, covering accommodation, leisure, tourism, business, restaurants and bars, shopping and services.
Portugal - Official site of the government agency Investments, Trade and Tourism of Portugal. Provides general information on the country and localities, and on buying, investing and tourism, and links to related sites.
Portugal Info Net - A guide covering travel, car hire, accommodation, property, sports, entertainment, food and wine, news, weather, maps and classifieds. Also has guides by region.
Lonely Planet: Portugal - Guide to the country. Map, facts and figures, attractions, events, culture, and tourist information.
Portugal Weather - Weather reports for main cities at Portugal.
ExpatLink Portugal - The Portuguese section of a site providing links to English speaking expatriates the world over. Covers maps, major towns and cities, hotels, real estate, schools, transport, taxation and weather.
Portals to the World: Portugal - Annotated directory of selected online resources provided by the Library of Congress.
Tumba! - A search engine for the Portuguese Web, developed by the University of Lisbon. Portuguese and English interfaces.
Topix.net: Portugal - News from Portugal gathered from various sources on the web.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Portugal "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Portugal When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Portugal I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Portugal Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Portugal "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Portugal He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Portugal This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Portugal Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley 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 Portugal "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Portugal "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') 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 Portugal "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams Portugal "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Portugal "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Portugal Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Portugal My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Portugal "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Portugal There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Portugal It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Portugal "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Portugal What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland 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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Portugal All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Portugal
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