ASCO S.A. - Garment producer. Includes an overview of the company, its location and its goals for the future. [English/Romanian/French/Italian]
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Bacau "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Bacau
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Bacau Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Bacau
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Bacau Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Bacau
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Bacau If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Bacau
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Bacau Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Bacau
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Bacau The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Bacau
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Bacau Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Bacau
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Bacau All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Bacau
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Bacau Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Bacau
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Bacau Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Bacau
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Bacau Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Bacau
