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Gate Foundation - An international foundation based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It has succesfully developed projects in the field of international contemporary art, and has created sites where intercultural exchange could take place.
Institute for the Unstable Media - An interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam.
Origin Unknown - Agency for research into the art collections which were primarily recuperated from Germany after the second world war.
Artimo Foundation - Supports and promotes young, international artists. Publisher of artist's books and producer of websites for artists.
Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development - Stimulates and supports activities in the field of culture and development by granting awards, funding and producing publications and by financing and promoting networks and innovative cultural activities. Programme, themes, partners and archive.
Netherlands Institute for Art History - RKD, the aim is to collect as much visual and written documentary material about Western - and particularly Dutch - fine and applied art from the late medieval to the contemporary period as possible and to make this available for consultation by the public.
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(George Eliot) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Institutes and Foundations The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Institutes and Foundations All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Institutes and Foundations Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Institutes and Foundations A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Institutes and Foundations Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Institutes and Foundations "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Institutes and Foundations Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Institutes and Foundations "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Institutes and Foundations Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Institutes and Foundations Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Institutes and Foundations Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Institutes and Foundations Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Institutes and Foundations An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Institutes and Foundations "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Institutes and Foundations Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Institutes and Foundations I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Institutes and Foundations LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Institutes and Foundations Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. 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