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Window to Karelia - Comprehensive information on Karelia (in Russian, English, Karelian and Finnish).
Karjalane lehüt - Karelian page - Information on the Karelian language and culture (in English, Russian and Finnish).
Karelian Links - Collection of links from the Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples.
GeoNative - Karelia - Karjala - Karelian placenames, from the GeoNative website.
The Karelians - Overview article from The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire.
Karelians - Profile of the Karelian people, from NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies.
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Karelian There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Karelian Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken Karelian Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Karelian We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Karelian Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Karelian The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Karelian Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Karelian The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Karelian "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Karelian "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) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Karelian blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. 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 Karelian Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Karelian When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Karelian Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Karelian There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Karelian Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Karelian blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Karelian "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) 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 bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Karelian Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle "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) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Karelian People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Karelian I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Karelian
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