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Artsite - Survey of museums, galleries, artists in Belgium.
Bellydance - Background information on orientalism, turkish and arabic bellydance, including a section with prints for sale.
Royal Library Albert I, Brussels - The largest library in Belgium, conserving close on 5 million volumes.
Ons Erfdeel - Flemish-Netherlands Foundation whose aim is to promote cultural cooperation among speakers of the Dutch language and to increase awareness of Flemish and Dutch culture abroad.
Mode2001 Landed/Geland - International fashion event in Antwerp (May-October 2001).
10pm - Site containing a great archive of various visual art projects from the digital age.
Antiques World Belgium - Listings of antiques auction rooms, dealers, transportation advice, art restoration, galleries, and stolen goods.
Europalia 2001 - Annual event meant to improve Belgian and European public awareness of the guest country's cultural heritage. 2001: Poland.
Ric's Riverboat - Forum for plastic arts, aimed at art critics, gallerists and experts in important European art centres. Organizes also entertainment and artistic events.
Tsjok - Online booking service. A tool and a website which brings Clubs/Concert-Organizers, Booking agencies and Bands/DJ's closer to each other.
Guerilla - Based in the Flemish capital Antwerp, they promote underground culture by representing both musicians and other artists, organising their own events and by offering a forum for like-minded souls.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Arts and Entertainment What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Arts and Entertainment Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Arts and Entertainment Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Arts and Entertainment "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Arts and Entertainment A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Arts and Entertainment Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Arts and Entertainment A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Arts and Entertainment I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Arts and Entertainment There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Arts and Entertainment Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Arts and Entertainment If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment 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 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Arts and Entertainment
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