Photos of Baikal - Picture gallery dedicated to the Baikal Lake and surrounding area.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) National Parks Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
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Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
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-- Andrew Brown If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) National Parks Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 National Parks
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo National Parks I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho National Parks "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno National Parks
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke National Parks Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber National Parks
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz National Parks Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West National Parks
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita National Parks An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry 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. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland National Parks
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West National Parks People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov National Parks
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde National Parks I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. National Parks
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) National Parks Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) National Parks
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov National Parks We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr 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.
-- Crowf "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) National Parks
