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Scandinavia Has It - Portal site with information and links to business, culture and society in Scandinavia.
The Nordic FAQ - Information about the Nordic countries structured as a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).
Scandinavica.com - Nordic portal serves as a directory of links with a shopping area, and discussion boards.
Nordic Pages - Directory of links organized by country, region, and subject.
Photos from Scandinavia - Pictures from Norway, Sweden and Denmark and their capitals Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Kvarken Council - Cross-border cooperation organization in the Kvarken Region between Sweden and Finland. Information about the council, region and projects in Swedish, Finnish and English.
S.B.S.C. AB - Products and contact information of Selected Brands Shoes and Clothes AB, distributor of Caterpillar, Spiewak, Stride and Paul Smith shoes in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.
Nordic Amateur Theatre Council (NAR) - An organization for cooperation between the amateur theatre associations in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, The Faeroes, Greenland and Aland Islands.
Valhalla - Nordic network for children's and youth culture. Information about common activities and cooperation projects in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Scandinavian Bishops' Conference - Cooperative working body of the Catholic bishops in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Site is in English and Swedish.
The Scandinavian Naturist Portal - Information about naturism in Scandinavia.
Adizes Scandinavia - Consultancy and business development, improvement of production flows, sales development, and HR development.
Scandinavian Independent Marine Surveyors' Association (SIMSA) - Open to marine surveyors and consultants in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Includes purpose and history, requirements for membership, and general scope of operations.
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Nordic Countries You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Nordic Countries True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Nordic Countries In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Nordic Countries "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Nordic Countries Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Nordic Countries No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Nordic Countries In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Nordic Countries This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Nordic Countries We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Nordic Countries He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Nordic Countries "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Nordic Countries "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Nordic Countries I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Nordic Countries An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Nordic Countries Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Nordic Countries Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Nordic Countries Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Nordic Countries "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) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Nordic Countries "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Nordic Countries "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Nordic Countries If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Nordic Countries
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