NWPC' 04 - Nordic Wind Power Conference in Gothenburg. Grid Integration and Electrical Systems of Wind Turbines and Farms.
Learning to change our world - An international consultation in Gothenburg, on education for sustainable development. May 4-7 2004.
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Science and Environment When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Science and Environment
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Science and Environment When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Science and Environment
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Science and Environment "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Science and Environment
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) 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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Science and Environment To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Science and Environment
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-- John Adams, dying words Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Science and Environment There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Science and Environment
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Science and Environment My other wife is beautiful. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Science and Environment
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Science and Environment He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Science and Environment Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Science and Environment
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 Science and Environment "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Science and Environment
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Science and Environment Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Science and Environment
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Science and Environment Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
