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	Army Museum - Official site of the Belgian army museum.
	Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Preservation and study of the natural historical State collections; also dealing with the library, the museum, and temporary exhibitions.
	Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens - Programme and practical information on temporary exhibitions.
	Ename 974 - An ambitious archeological project in Ename near Oudenaarde. The site contains pages about the 1,000 years old parish church, the museum, the park, and local news.
	Tramway Museum of Thuin - It contains a dozen of tramways from the vicinal network of the SNCV NMVB and it still operates a line every weekend from June 1 until November 1. Choose the English version.
	Museum Louvain-la-Neuve - University museum of Louvain-la-Neuve.
	René Magritte - Not exactly a museum site, but definitely an impressive virtual gallery of the painter's life and works.
	Royal Museum for Central Africa - World famous collections of geology, zoology, cultural anthropology, and history of Central Africa. Dutch, French, English, and German versions.
	Photography Museum, Antwerp - General information in Dutch and English.
	Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Ghent - Highlights of the collection are an 18th century interior, an important art nouveau section, and more contemporary stuff.
	Musée Rops - Life, works and techniques of the 19th-century draughtsman from Namur who became a star in Paris. French/English versions.
	Stampe & Vertongen Museum - Historical aircraft museum in Antwerp.
	Archives and Museum for Flemish Cultural Life - Evocation of the history of the Flemish Movement and literature against a broad political, social and artistic background.
	Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp - More about the original workshops of Christophe Plantin, the famous printer-publisher in the second half of the 16th century, typographical collections, and the art collections, which are preserved in their original historical setting.
	Autoworld in Brussels - The automotive museum : history, educative activities, information, virtual tour.
	Jewish Museum - Exhibitions, acquisitions, genealogy, and events.

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Jones) Museums >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Museums The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. Museums "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Museums No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Sta�l Museums For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Museums He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Museums Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Museums It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Museums 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 Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn 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 Museums "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Museums This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Museums Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Museums In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." 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