Official tradepromotion organization of Switzerland. - OSEC is the official trade promotion organization of Switzerland. OSEC provides trade services to Swiss exporters and to companies worldwide interested in doing business with Switzerland. - Site with Swiss Exporters Directory
Swisstrade - Der Verband Swiss Export ist eine Interessengemeinschaft kleiner und mittlerer Exportunternehmen und informiert über sich und seine Dienstleistungsangebote. Ermöglicht die Suche nach Unternehmen.
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-- Thomas Szasz "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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-- T. S. Eliot Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers International Trade Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart International Trade Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
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-- Lenny Bruce International Trade At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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-- Peter Ustinov International Trade
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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-- Lao Tzu If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Dawn French International Trade Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
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