Vasaloppet - Annual cross-country skiing race from Sälen to Mora. About the history of the race, past winners and information about upcoming races.
Dalarna County Council - The political body responsible for public health care and regional development. Information about emergency medical care.
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Dalarna County "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Dalarna County
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Dalarna County "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Dalarna County
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Dalarna County After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Dalarna County
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dalarna County "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Dalarna County
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Dalarna County "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) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Dalarna County
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Dalarna County A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Dalarna County
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Dalarna County "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Dalarna County
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Dalarna County Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Dalarna County
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dalarna County "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Dalarna County "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Dalarna County
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "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) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Dalarna County "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Dalarna County
