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	Domain name registry for .ch - Swiss TLD name registry.
	Swiss Embassy - Information about Switzerland: current events, visa and legal affairs, history and culture, education, and science.
	Swiss Statistics - Detailed statistics and profiles from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.
	Swissinfo - News portal with web directory, maps, weather.
	Culturelinks.ch - Portal of Pro Helvetia, the Arts council of Switzerland, to access to cultural websites in Switzerland and abroad. Directory of addresses and websites.
	Switzerland in Sight - Multimedia resource and directory on different aspects of Switzerland: e.g. landscape, people and society, economy, science and education.
	World Factbook: Switzerland - CIA country fact sheet on Switzerland.
	Wap Finder - Directory for sites accessible by miniscreen.
	Microswiss Linkpage - Directory of links to primarily Swiss sites in German.

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 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Guides and Directories "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) 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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Guides and Directories The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Man and wife make one fool. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Guides and Directories "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Guides and Directories The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Guides and Directories In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Guides and Directories Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Guides and Directories "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Guides and Directories "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Guides and Directories "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Guides and Directories Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Guides and Directories You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Guides and Directories "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Guides and Directories Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Guides and Directories Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Guides and Directories "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "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 Guides and Directories Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "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 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Guides and Directories When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Guides and Directories blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Guides and Directories A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Guides and Directories Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |