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Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations, situated in The Hague.
International School of Amsterdam - A school for 800 students ages 3-19 of more than 40 nationalities, offering the IB programme to high school students.
FRESH - Foundation for Real Estate Students from Holland - Study association. Features a list of activities, a free database on real estate and a digital newsletter.
Humaniversity - Programmes, courses and experiences of this professional center for therapy, training and personal growth, founded by Veeresh Denny Yuson-Sanchez, located in Egmond aan Zee.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - Fundamental research, topic is psycholinguistics, i.e. the study of mental processes involved in language production, language comprehension and language acquisition, as well as the relation between language, thought and culture ("cognitive anthropology").
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) - History, organization and functions of this institute, specialized in advising the Dutch government on matters related to scientific research, providing a forum for the scientific community and promoting international scientific co-operation.
The British School in The Netherlands - Provides a British education for approx. 1500 students of many different nationalities from age 3 - 19. Three sites - two in The Hague for children up to age 11, and a senior school in Voorschoten.
The International School for Humanities and Social Sciences - Part of the University of Amsterdam, ISHSS offers a wide variety of MA Degrees and summer schools.
International Floral Design School - Professional Dutch and European floral design training in the Netherlands, located in Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam.
Rotterdam School of Management - Number one graduate MBA/MBI education.
International Business Studies - The Haagsche Hogeschool, The Hague, student site with information about the IBS program, activities, and partner schools.
Klasgenoten - All about school reunions and looking for (former) classmates (=klasgenoten) in the Netherlands. Site in English.
International School Eerde - Courses and boarding facilities of this school offering accredited international diploma programmes for secondary school students interested in an international career and primary international education for the youngsters. With news and contact information.
Nuffic, the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education - Homepage of Nuffic, the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education. Site in English and Dutch
The Adjacent Schools - Alternative distance learning organisation offering MA programmes (not validated by any recognised academic institution). Goal: 'to join the common effort at helping persons know what they know and intend to do about it, using the old local resources and services and the new global media'.
OZSL: Dutch Research School in Logic - Website of the Dutch Research School in Logic
Training Arts International - Training Arts International organizes business presentation workshops.
Business Studies - Offers information about international business and management studies of the Fontys university.
Boerma Instituut - History, courses and general information of this international school for professional Dutch and European floral design training.
Linguarama Nederland - Courses and information about the clients and students of this center, providing companies and individuals with language training.
English, just English - English courses for professionals both in groups and individual. Information on the options.
IBMS forum - Discussion board for students of the International Business and Management Studies course. Independent, all IBMS students and prospective students are welcome.
University College Alumni Association - The official site of the University College Alumni Association, for all Alumni of University College Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Alumni network of International Business School in Groningen - Alumni network of International Business School in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Maastricht School of Translation and Interpreting - Under the auspices of and in collaboration with: University of North London, London/United Kingdom, Institut Libre Marie Haps, Brussels/Belgium.
University of Amsterdam - Official site of the University of Amsterdam, offering information about the educational programmes, research, faculties, facilities and libraries.
University of Phoenix - Provides Higher Education, MBA program (Master of Business Administration). The program can be attended at various locations in The Netherlands.
Common Link - Specializes in providing practical English language training to groups and individuals for both business and private communication. Located in Zaanstad.
HAN University - Higher education institute in Arnhem and Nijmegen. Faculties, bachelor and master programmes and international courses.
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Lawrence University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Education The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Education Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Education And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "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 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Education If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Education "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Education The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Education A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Education Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Education "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce "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) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Education "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Education A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Education It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Education Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Education I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Education Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Education "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Education
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