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Komi Republic - Andrey A. Pomysov's virtual albums and collection of links to the Komi Republic.
GeoNative - Komi - Komi placenames, from the GeoNative website.
Komi-Permyaks - Profile of the Komi-Permyak people, form NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies.
Komi Links - Collection of links from the Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples.
The Peoples and Languages of Russia: Komi - Multimedia web site from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Komi - Profile of the Komi people, from NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies.
Komi - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) member page for Komi.
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The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Komi "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Komi Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Komi Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Komi I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes Komi A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Komi Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Komi "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Komi "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Komi A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Komi It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Komi Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Komi Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Komi Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Komi "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Komi 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 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Komi
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