Flemish Environment Agency - Public Flemish institution that prepares and implements policy. Summary if its activities, contact information and information on air and water quality.
Convention on Biological Diversity - The Belgian Clearing-House Mechanism is the portal site set up by Belgium to promote technical and scientific cooperation in the field of biodiversity and to provide information on matters related to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Eurospace Foundation - Space camp, expositions and outreach activities of a Belgian non-profit organization promoting the benefits and challenges of space science and technology.
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Science and Environment This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) 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 Science and Environment
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "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 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Science and Environment I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Science and Environment
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Science and Environment Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Science and Environment
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Science and Environment I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 What's new? Most of my wife. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Science and Environment I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Science and Environment
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Science and Environment If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Science and Environment
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment 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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Science and Environment
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Science and Environment Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Science and Environment
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Science and Environment Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Science and Environment
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Science and Environment There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Science and Environment
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Science and Environment All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Science and Environment
