Pro Baltica Forum - An organization representing a group of companies, institutions and individuals aiming at promoting cooperation in the Baltic Sea region.
Boing - Baltic Sea Eutrophication Information - Information service on eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. Issues about the problems and the environment, direct access data and interactive maps and databases.
Baltic Countries - Historical, cultural and tourist information of the Baltic countries.
CIESIN - The Regional Node is an initiative to identify, document and provide access to information on the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. With links to several databases.
The Baltic International Summer School - Offers a variety of intensive courses on Baltic matters, especially tailored for foreign students and teachers. Part of Vidzeme University College.
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies - The 17th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) will take place at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. June 15-17, 2000.
Council of the Baltic Sea States - Information about the history of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), its organisational structure, terms of reference and basic documents, past and on-going co-operation efforts, and news and events and activities of the region.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Baltics This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Baltics
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Baltics Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Baltics
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Baltics Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Baltics
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Baltics I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Baltics
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Baltics A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Baltics
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Baltics You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Baltics
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Baltics Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Baltics
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Baltics "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Baltics
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Baltics "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Baltics
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.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Baltics Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Baltics
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Baltics People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Baltics
