Bureau of Quality Assurance - The Belgian GLP Monitoring Authority is in charge of the application of good laboratory practice in safety testing of chemicals. It is a section of the Scientific Institute of Public Health.
The Social Security in Belgium - Presented by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Public Health and the Environment. The site is partly available in English.
De Rand - The non-profit organisation 'de Rand' is active in six community centres of the Flemish area around Brussels, providing a broad socio-cultural programme.
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Ministries and Departments Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
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"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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Tom Robbins An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Ministries and Departments I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Ministries and Departments
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Ministries and Departments Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
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-- Oliver Herford If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Ministries and Departments
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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-- Anonymous The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Ministries and Departments I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Ministries and Departments "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Ministries and Departments
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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-- Pauline Thomason Ministries and Departments "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Ministries and Departments
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
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- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Ministries and Departments Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Ministries and Departments
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Ministries and Departments I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Ministries and Departments Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Ministries and Departments
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Ministries and Departments May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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computer that th Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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