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Dutch Experiment Support Center - Offers information regarding ground based and real microgravity (life) sciences experiments.
English Language Institute - Classes for adult beginners to proficiency levels. Small groups or private classes in general and business English and Cambridge exam training.
The British School of Amsterdam - General information, organization and curriculum of this international school, offering a British style education for children of all nationalities.
2 Voices - Bilingual (Dutch and English), early childhood, Montessori school with programs for students 0-3 and 3-6 years of age.
British Language Training Centre - English and Dutch programmes for groups and individuals. Offers day and evening classes, in-company training.
AMI Languages - Dutch and English language training aimed at executives and expats.
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Education With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln "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) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education 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 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Education Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Education "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) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Education A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Education Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Education 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 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Education I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Education Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Education "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Education 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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Education "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Education "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Education "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Education The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Education "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Education Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Education "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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Education
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