Augusta Raurica - Archeological and visitor information on the site of the Roman colony Augusta Raurica, where 1800 years ago, 20'000 people lived.
Collamat Stralfors AG - Manufacturers of modular labelling machines. Company information and history as well as distributor locations and opportunities included.
Birsterminal AG - Logistics provider with barge, rail, and truck connections at the port of Basel-Birsfelden. Services, infrastructure details, contact information, and location map included.
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-- Henry James Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- William Penn Basel-Country When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
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-- Samuel Johnson To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
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-- Yogi Berra The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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Basel-Country History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Basel-Country
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence History is more or less bunk.
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-- Marcus Aurelius Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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-- Katharine Hepburn It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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-- Jerry Seinfeld Basel-Country
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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- John D. Rockefeller Basel-Country Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
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If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
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-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Basel-Country "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Basel-Country
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Basel-Country Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
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campaign "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Basel-Country To love another person is to help them love God.
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-- Mike Binder Luck is the residue of design.
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