The Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous Okrug - Provides general information on the Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous Okrug, Northwest Siberia, focusing particularly on the region's oil and gas industry.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "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) Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran 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.
-- Crow 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
futur Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton 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 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Man and wife make one fool. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous District
