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Moscow-based Journalists - Guide for Moscow-based foreign journalists; reference material on Russia, travel tips, officialdom and entertainment.
The Moscow Expat Site - Virtual community for expatriates living in, or visiting, Moscow. Includes a survival guide and a business directory.
Russian-Norwegian Directory - Comprehensive directory of links, sites, organizations and firms, including those not having Web presence. Russians in Norway and Norwegians in Russia.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Expatriate Life The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Expatriate Life Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Expatriate Life "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Expatriate Life No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Expatriate Life "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Expatriate Life No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Expatriate Life "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Expatriate Life 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. The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Expatriate Life The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Expatriate Life One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Expatriate Life Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "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) Expatriate Life By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Expatriate Life A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Expatriate Life Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Expatriate Life He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Expatriate Life Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Expatriate Life A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Expatriate Life Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Expatriate Life We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Expatriate Life "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Expatriate Life "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Expatriate Life
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