Baltic Environmental Atlas - Interactive environmental maps over the Baltic Sea region. The themes, such as population density and land use, relate to human impact on the environment in the region.
Baltic Lands - Maps of the Baltic Lands 1000 A.D. - 1809 A.D.
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Maps and Views If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Maps and Views
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Maps and Views "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Maps and Views
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Maps and Views We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Maps and Views
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Maps and Views "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Maps and Views
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Maps and Views History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Maps and Views
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maps and Views I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Maps and Views then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Maps and Views
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Maps and Views Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Maps and Views
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maps and Views Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Maps and Views
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Maps and Views 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 A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Maps and Views
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Maps and Views All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "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) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Maps and Views
