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	University of Groningen - The Faculty of Arts, links to academic programs, researchcenters and offices and services.
	HKU - Utrecht School of the Arts is one of the largest Schools of the Arts In Europe, with about 3000 students and over 500 members of staff and Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses in Visual Arts and Design, Music, Theatre, Art Media & Technology, Arts- and Mediamanagement and Training Courses for Art Masters.

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Arts "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Arts I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller 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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Arts "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Arts "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Arts The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 Arts Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Arts blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Arts "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Arts A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Arts 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Arts 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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Arts Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Arts Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) 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 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Arts I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Arts "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Arts Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Arts I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. 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