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Canada - Information about the Embassy, its commercial section, and about Canada and Portugal.
Australia - Embassy of Australia in Lisbon. Includes information about counsular affairs and immigration, bilateral relations, resources for tourists, related links.
Japan - Has a history of relations between Japan and Portugal, and a message of welcome from the ambassador.
United Kingdom - Provides a range of Embassy services and information about Britain. In English and Portugese.
United States - Includes news and discussion of current issues in US foreign policy, information about the embassy and consular services, related links.
Denmark - Royal Danish Embassy in Lisbon, giving information on political, economic and commercial contacts, as well as information on history, cultural activities, travel and tourism, and consular affairs.
South Korea - Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Portugal, listing VIP visits in recent years, and describing Portugese-Korean economic relations.
Indonesia - Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Lisbon, featuring a history of Portugese-Indonesian contacts, and a list of words of Portuguese origin in Bahasa Indonesia.
South Africa - Includes contact information and a diplomatic list for the South African Embassy in Lisbon, and also contact details for the Honorary Consuls in Porto and Madeira.
India - Embassy of India in Lisbon, with a detailed history of Indo-Portuguese bilateral relations, and a list of Portugese associations of persons of Indian origin.
Belgium - Contact information for the Embassy of Belgium in Lisbon, and also for the Honorary Consulates in Porto, Faro, Ponta Delgada, and Funchal.
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(John Cage) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Foreign It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Foreign I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski 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. ? 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(Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason Foreign For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Foreign An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb Foreign We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Foreign By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Foreign "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. 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