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Metropolitan Bilbao - Challenges of the 21st century
Getxo - Official pages of the town council
Gorliz - Official pages of the town council
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao - Information provided by public authorities in Bilbao
Lea-Artibai - A charming region in Bizkaia.
Bilbao Virtual Tour - Make a Virtual travel to Bilbao.
Residence of Students Nekane - Residence house for students Nekane offers a family atmosphere with clean rooms in the center of Bilbao.
Hotel Conde Duque - Bilbao - The exceptionally good location of the hotel, completely renovated in 1997, allows guests to enjoy all the advantages of being in the town centre with the calmness of a residential area.
Bilbao English Cab - A brief overview of the taxi service, and a contact e-mail address.
Bilbao Café Bar - Period Cafeteria (1911) restored (1992). In the Plaza Nueva of the old town of Bilbao. Dining room and pavement café.
Residence of students Nekane - Offers rooms in the center of Bilbao.
Cityvox - An interactive guide to going out in Bilbao. Provides recommendations on restaurants, bars, clubs, shops, accommodation, events, shows and practical information on exchange rates, weather and maps.
Apartment - Three bedroom unit in Gorliz, available for short term rental. Photos, rates, and booking forms.
Aretxarte Hotel - Hotel with 30 rooms with TV incorporated, minibar, Internet connection and air conditioning, also has a meeting room, a restaurant with 200 people capability, wine cellar and txoko. In the Zamudio technological park.
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Biscay "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Biscay Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Biscay He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Biscay If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Biscay Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Biscay Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biscay Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Biscay Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Biscay "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Biscay Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Biscay One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Biscay He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi 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 Biscay "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Biscay Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Biscay "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) My other wife is beautiful. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Biscay We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Biscay It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Biscay A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Biscay If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Biscay Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Biscay Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Biscay
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