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Milieukontakt Oost-Europa - Works with non-governmental organisations on environmental topics in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States.

European Environment Agency - Provides information for sound and effective policies to protect the environment and support sustainable development.

European Space Agency - Provides a vision of Europe's future in space, and of the benefits that satellites can supply.

Organic Europe - An overview of organic farming in 25 European countries.

Planning the Gateway - Information system for projects of regional development, spatial planning, traffic management, cross-border cooperation in the region of Austria, Czech, Slovakia and Hungary.

Community Research and Development Information Service - Cordis provides access to a wide range of information on EU research and innovation development activities.

ENRISK - Project web page of 'Environmental Risk Assessment for European Agriculture' - aims to ensure productive and sustainable agricultural systems in Europe.

International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) - The work of the ICPR aimed at the protection of the river Rhine.

"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Science and Environment Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Science and Environment "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Science and Environment Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Science and Environment "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Science and Environment Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Science and Environment "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Science and Environment Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Science and Environment We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Science and Environment The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Science and Environment The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment 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 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Science and Environment "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 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi 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 "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') Science and Environment Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Science and Environment A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Science and Environment Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Science and Environment My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Science and Environment 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 There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Science and Environment In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Science and Environment I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Science and Environment All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Science and Environment
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