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WCAA - The Wellesley College Alumnae Association in Brussels.
Expats in Brussels - A practical guide to settling and living in Brussels.
EGG Brussels - English-speaking Gay Group (EGG). Monthly events for gays and lesbians of all nationalities.
Brussels Remembers - Memorials, monuments, plaques, statues in Brussels. Each one located on a map with photographs and background information.
Sergio Frailoi - Personal home page, with brief resume, contact information, and links.
Cultural Installer - Stirs the cultural soup to bring the (accidentally or intentionally) drowned back to the surface. His principal workspace is the so-called public space (real or virtual). His preferred methods are detournement, piracy, plagiarism, mutation.
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Society and Culture That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture 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 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Society and Culture Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Society and Culture The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Society and Culture "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Society and Culture I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Society and Culture First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Society and Culture A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Society and Culture "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co 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 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 Society and Culture Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Society and Culture Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Society and Culture Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Society and Culture "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) 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' Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Society and Culture
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