Blekinge Stugförmedling - Summer cottages and flats for rent throughout the county. Acts as intermediary between owners and lodgers.
Blekinge County Council - The main task of the County Council is to ensure that the inhabitants have access to health and medical care services. Information about health centres, dental services and vaccinations.
Blekinge County - Article from Wikipedia, covering basic facts about geography, administration and heraldry. Includes a map of Sweden showing the county's location.
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Blekinge County People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Blekinge County
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Blekinge County The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Blekinge County
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) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Blekinge County "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Blekinge County
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Blekinge County CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Blekinge County
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown 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 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Blekinge County "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Blekinge County
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Blekinge County Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Blekinge County
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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 Blekinge County Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Blekinge County
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Blekinge County Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Blekinge County
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Blekinge County "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Blekinge County
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blekinge County Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Blekinge County
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet 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 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Blekinge County "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) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Blekinge County
