The Sakhalin Regional Museum - Natural and climatic features of the region; fauna and flora; history of Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands.
Guide for Russian Far East - English speaking guides for Russian Far East. Excursions, hiking, rafting. Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and around.
The Kamchatka Page - Devoted to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East. Information about wildlife, geology, local people and tourism.
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Far East "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Far East
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Far East blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Far East
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Far East "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Far East
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Far East "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Far East
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Far East Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Far East
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Far East "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Far East
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Far East Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Far East
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 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 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Far East "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Far East
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Far East Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst 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. Far East
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying 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 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Far East Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Far East
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Far East Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Far East
