Alte Muehle in Hannover, Germany

Humor

Have you gotten your income tax papers yet? They've done away with all those silly questions now. There are only three questions on the form: 

1. How much did you earn? 

2. How much do you have left? 

3. Send it in. 

—Sandy Powell 

Great Quotes from Great Minds

Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your character. Your character becomes your destiny. 

Maschsee festival in Hannover

POLITICAL SYSTEMS DEFINED

POLITICAL SYSTEMS DEFINED 

• Feudalism. You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the 

milk. 

• Pure Democracy. You have two cows. Your neighbors decide 

who gets your milk. 

• Representative Democracy. You have two cows. Your neighbors 

pick someone to decide who gets your milk. 

• Pure Communism. You have two cows. Your neighbors help 

take care of them, and you all share the milk. 

• Pure Socialism. You have two cows. The government takes 

them and puts them in a barn with everybody else's cows. 

You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives 

you as much milk as you need. 

• Bureaucratic Socialism. You have two cows. The government 

takes them and puts them in a barn with everybody else's 

cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to 

take care of the chickens the government took from the 

chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk 

as the regulations say you should need. 

• Fascism. You have two cows. The government takes both, 

hires you to care for them, and sells you the milk. 

• Dictatorship. You have two cows. The government takes both 

and drafts you. 

• Bureaucracy. You have two cows. At first, the government 

regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk 

them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes 

both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down 

the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting 

for the missing cows. 

• Pure Anarchy. You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at 

a fair price, or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill 

you. 

• Anarcho-Capitalism. You have two cows. You sell one and buy 

a bull. 

• Surrealism. You have two giraffes. The government requires 

you to take harmonica lessons. 

Experience is...

Experience is what enables you to make the same mistake 

again without getting caught. 

—Ralph Peterson 

Proverb

Give a horse to him who tells the truth. He'll need it to escape on. 

—Persian proverb 

Januar

Humor

They say there are six phases to any project: 

• Enthusiasm 

• Disillusionment 

• Panic 

• Search for the guilty 

• Punishment of the innocent 

• Praise and honors for the nonparticipants 

Great Quotes from Great Minds

The greatest discovery is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of his mind.

- William James

The HDI-Arena in Hannover

The HDI-Arena in Hannover is a football stadium with 49,000 seats.

Great Quotes from Great Minds

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. 

- Albert Einstein

Failure is a success if we learn from it.

- Malcolm Forbes

Hindenburgschleuse nearby Hannover, Germany

Vogelpark Walsrode nearby Hannover, Germany

Great Quotes from Great Minds

Continuous effort! not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking your potential.

-Winston Churchill

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted. 

- Zig Ziglar

Great Quotes from Great Minds

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, then by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines! Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, and discover.  

- Mark Twain

New Pelt Fashion at Berlin Fasion Week

Great Quotes from Great Minds

You see things and say "Why?" but I dream of things that never were and say "Why not?" 

- George Bernard Shaw

Herrenhaeuser Gaerten near Hannover, Germany

Ship

It´s different

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