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Geneva.ch - Introduction to doing business in Geneva: facilities and infrastructure, and financial center by the State and city of Geneva.
Geneva-guide.ch - A comprehensive travel guide and portal which provides , hotel reservations, car rentals, airfare services as well as guides to shopping, nightlife, movies and even financial services.
Geneva Tourism - Tourist information.
Agenda - UN Major Meetings - Calendar of major meetings to be held at United Nations Office in Geneva.
SFSO - Cantons in profile: Geneva - Swiss Statistics - Key data.
City of Geneva - Official site presenting information on administration, politics, culture, history, interactive maps and news.
Working in Geneva - Web directory of the city and its vicinity.
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(Albert Einstein) Geneva "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Geneva "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Geneva "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Geneva Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Geneva Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Geneva A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Geneva "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra 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 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Geneva "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Geneva 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? Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Geneva He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Geneva Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Geneva Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Geneva Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Geneva We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Geneva History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Geneva Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Geneva "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Geneva Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Geneva I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Geneva This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Geneva
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