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Child Focus - The European Centre for missing and sexually exploited children is a private non-profit organization operating under Belgian law, and recognized as being of public utility. It also has an international dimension.
XPats - Portal for expatriates moving to or living in Belgium.
ANB - Association of Nigerians in Belgium. Information about the association and links to information about Nigeria.
Expatriate Online - A community site dedicated to resources for moving to Belgium and living and working there.
The Walloon Language Page - Linguistic, sociolinguistic, and historical information about Walloon, a Romance dialect spoken in Southern Belgium.
Egyptians in Belgium - Forum for Egyptians living in Belgium: useful links, Egyptian community events, virtual map for Egypt and message board.
Mishpat.Net - Categorized directory of law-related web sites from Belgium.
Cultural Policies in Europe - Belgium - Cultural Policy in Belgium. Access to data, facts, trends and summaries of current debates on national cultural policy developments.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Society and Culture The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Society and Culture Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Society and Culture The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Society and Culture Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "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 Society and Culture Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Society and Culture "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Society and Culture "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 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown "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) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Society and Culture A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Society and Culture Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Society and Culture "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Society and Culture I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Society and Culture It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Society and Culture "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Society and Culture
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