Edward E. Rossel - Official web site of the Governor of the oblast. Biography, political principles, photos and an online form to request more information.
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Sverdlovskaya Oblast "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Sverdlovskaya Oblast
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Sverdlovskaya Oblast "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Sverdlovskaya Oblast
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Sverdlovskaya Oblast "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Sverdlovskaya Oblast
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sverdlovskaya Oblast The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Sverdlovskaya Oblast
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sverdlovskaya Oblast "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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, "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Sverdlovskaya Oblast
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Sverdlovskaya Oblast Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Sverdlovskaya Oblast
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Sverdlovskaya Oblast It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Sverdlovskaya Oblast
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Sverdlovskaya Oblast There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Sverdlovskaya Oblast
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Sverdlovskaya Oblast Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Sverdlovskaya Oblast
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Sverdlovskaya Oblast The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana 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 Sverdlovskaya Oblast
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill 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 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Sverdlovskaya Oblast The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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