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International House Portugal - Has branches in 10 Portuguese cities, teaching Portuguese as a foreign language, backed up by a varied socio-cultural programme. Accommodation can be arranged. Details of locations and courses.
Worldwide Classroom: Portugal - List of schools, institutes and cultural centers.
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência - Description of this scientific institute whose field of interest is biology, biomedicine and genetics. Research, teaching and events.
Portuguese Studies Review - International peer-reviwed journal publishing research on the Portuguese-speaking world, its diasporas, and global linkages.
SPRU - Sociedade Promotora de Residências Universitárias - The Rua dos Sapateiros University Hall of Residence in Lisbon is the first of ZoneSpru's units to appear on the portuguese market, providing students with accommodation.
Margarida's School - Language school in Estoril, teaching Portuguese as a second language. Courses, prices and textbooks.
The Future of Mind and Behaviour Sciences - The Department of Psychology of Universidade Lus?ona (ULHT) celebrates it's 10th aniversary with a conference untitled on behaviour sciences, in Lisbon, Torre do Tombo, from March 25, 2004.
Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon - Describes its history, departments, facilities, research and programmes of study. Also supporting services and the students association.
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Education If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Education "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Education "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Education The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Education Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Education Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Education "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen Education When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Education The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Education The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Education Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education "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) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Education Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Education Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Education If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George 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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Education "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Education My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education
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