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SinterNet WebRing - If your web site is about Sint Nicolaas or has at least one full page about/on Sint Nicolaas than you can join this WebRing.
Hello Sinterklaas - Sinterklaas explained, food and drinks, songs, poems and fun.
Sinterklaas, A Dutch Tradition - Invented to get lots of presents and annoy your family and friends.
Saint Nicholas - About three weeks before the 5th of December, 'Sinterklaas' arrives in Holland on a steamboat from Spain.
The Dutch Market - Promoting the Holiday of Sinterklaas with recipes, history, and artwork.
Sinterklaas - Santa Claus, the character was brought over to USA by Dutch settlers.
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Holidays The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Holidays Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Holidays "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Holidays 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 "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Holidays "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Holidays Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville 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 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Holidays He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Holidays "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Holidays A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Holidays If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Holidays An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Holidays 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 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Holidays 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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Holidays An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Holidays 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 "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Holidays In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Holidays >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Holidays Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Holidays There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Holidays I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Holidays "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Holidays
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