Vallonbruk in Uppland - Information about a region of historic mining processing sites built from the 1600s to the 1800s by Belgian immigrants.
County Council Job Fair - The Council is looking for medical staff in many areas. This site provides information and e-mail addresses for sending in applications.
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Uppsala County I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Uppsala County
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Uppsala County "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Uppsala County
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Uppsala County Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Uppsala County
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Uppsala County "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Uppsala County
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Uppsala County "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Uppsala County
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Uppsala County "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Uppsala County
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Uppsala County Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Uppsala County
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Uppsala County Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Uppsala County
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Uppsala County 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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Uppsala County
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Uppsala County Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Uppsala County
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "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) Uppsala County "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Uppsala County
