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The Flemish Parliament - Official website.
The Flemish Region - Official website.
The Walloon Region - Official website.
The Council of the Region of Brussels-Capital - Bruxelles regional parliament: contact information. Site available mainly in Dutch and French.
West- Vlaanderen Province - Official site. Administration and regions, culture and leisure, environment, economics and education, well-being and care.
Provincie of Flemish Brabant - Official site. Presentation of the province and the sub-regions. Administrative guide.
Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications - AWT - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) web portal of the Walloon region of Belgium.
Wallonia Official Technical Services - Technical, electromechanical, legal, environmental, quality Management to develop and control the motorway, road, river and canal infrastructures in Wallonia.
The Brussels Capital Region - Official website. Comprehensive information on all aspects of life in the region, a look at Brussels history, political insights and major event listings.
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Regional and Community Governments "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Regional and Community Governments "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Regional and Community Governments There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Regional and Community Governments Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Regional and Community Governments The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Regional and Community Governments 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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Regional and Community Governments He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Regional and Community Governments "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman 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' In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Regional and Community Governments I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Regional and Community Governments The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Regional and Community Governments The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Regional and Community Governments "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, Regional and Community Governments "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Regional and Community Governments "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Regional and Community Governments "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Regional and Community Governments Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Regional and Community Governments Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Regional and Community Governments "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Regional and Community Governments I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous Regional and Community Governments I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Regional and Community Governments We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 Regional and Community Governments
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