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Stichting Tegen Zinloos Geweld - A moment of silence is not enough, a complete dossier about senseless violence, based on events in Gorinchem when two girls died. Recommended for young and old, as an incentive in the struggle against senseless violence.
Outrageous Returnflight - KLM, your deportation agent.
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Activism "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Activism "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Activism You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Activism I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Activism There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Activism When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson 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 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Activism Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Activism Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain "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) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Activism The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Activism A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Activism If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Activism "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Activism If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Activism One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Activism "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Activism "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Activism We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Activism To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Activism Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Activism Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller Activism I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Activism
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