The Swedish Consumer Agency - The Swedish Consumer Agency is a state agency whose task is to help the Swedish general public with consumer affairs. Site covers policy on consumer issues and details of consumer protection organisations and legislation. (Also in Swedish.)
National Council for Crime Prevention / Brottsförebyggande rådet - The BRÅ is an agency of the Swedish Ministry of Justice responsible for criminological research. Site includes information on the organisation of the BRÅ, publications and studies on crime and crime prevention.
Swedish Work Environment Authority - The central administrative authority for questions relating to the working environment and working hours and the authority to which the Work Environment Inspectorate is accountable.
National Institute for Working Life / Arbetslivsinstitutet - Official site of the organisation responsible for researching issues relating to working life in Sweden. Includes information about the Institute, its research and development programmes and a searchable research database. (Also in Swedish)
Children's Ombudsman - Barnombudsmannen - Swedish children and young people up to the age of 18 have an Ombudsman of their own, the Childrens Ombudsman or Barnombudsmannen. This site details the work of the Ombudsman, the underlying legislative framework and a number of reports on children's issues. (Also in French and Spanish.)
Swedish Employment Service - Website of the Swedish National Labour Market Administration (AMS). Although most of the information is in Swedish, the site presents English-language pages on the AMS, press releases and information for jobseekers. (Also in Swedish)
Swedish Institute for Ecological Sustainability - IEH - Commissioned by the government to report environmental effects, best practice and research findings, and to increase co-operation between administration, science and industry.
Ministry of Justice / Justitiedepartementet - Official website of the Swedish Ministry of Justice. Includes English-language information on the Swedish legal system, statistics, judicial authorities and the Ministry of Justice itself. (Also in Swedish.)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Departments
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tear open packet, unfold and use.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Never eat more than you can lift.
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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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-- Anonymous When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- George Washington Carver Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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-- James Lowell Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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"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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
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- Irvin S. Cobb If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Departments
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
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-- Lewis Grizzard "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Departments
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Departments "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "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) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Departments
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Departments God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Departments Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Departments
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Departments And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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