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Picado, Nuno - Personal information, favorite music and interests, and links to web resources.
Monteiro dos Reis, Arsénio - Manager of the Computer Centre, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.
Alves, Francisco Jose Lomelino - Family photographs, map and photographs of the Azores, links to family pages.
Neto, Álvaro - Photographs and information about a family living in Oporto.
Aguiar, Ademar - A teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC), University of Porto.
Mascarenhas, Miguel - A half-Swiss and half-Portuguese young man in Portugal. His hobbies: hamsters, stamps, tropical fish, computer games and Magic: the Gathering.
Matos, Pedro - Portuguese Territorial Engineer working in the European Space Agency.
Marques, Susana - Autobiography and photographs of a cross-dressing married man.
de Sousa Lima, Pierre - An economist in the Azores gives an autobiography, family photographs and information on the Azores and motorbikes.
Alves de Sousa, Ricardo José - CV of a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, including interests and publications.
Moreira, Ana M. D. - Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Degrees, positions, research, conference activities and editorial activities.
do Ceu Pinto, Prof. Maria - Curriculum Vitae, investigation activity and teaching activity.
Vinhais, Marta Maria - Personal weblog; reviews about literature, movies and music; thoughts about her life, fear, hate and hope.
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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Personal Homepages "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Personal Homepages All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Personal Homepages Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Personal Homepages The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Personal Homepages The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Personal Homepages The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Personal Homepages MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Personal Homepages Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (Andr Gide) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Personal Homepages There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait 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 Personal Homepages Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- Franois de La Rouch Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Personal Homepages By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Personal Homepages If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Personal Homepages "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Personal Homepages The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Personal Homepages You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Personal Homepages I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Personal Homepages "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Personal Homepages Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Personal Homepages The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Personal Homepages A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Personal Homepages "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Personal Homepages
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