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European Union Research Organisations Heads of Research Councils - Informal association of national research councils, and analogous public non-university research organisations, of the states of the EU.
Bellona Foundation - Science-based environmental organization set up to combat environmental degradation, pollution-induced dangers to human health, and the ecological impacts of economic development strategies.
European Science Communication and Information Network (ESCIN) - Aims to improve the appreciation and understanding of basic and applied scientific research among Europe's citizens and opinion-formers.
Climate Action Network Europe - Coordinating office for environmental groups in Western Europe working on climate change issues.
EMEP - Co-operative programme for monitoring and evaluation of the long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe.
European Eco-Forum - A network of more than 200 Environmental Citizen's Organizations throughout Europe. Issue groups, documents.
European Science Foundation - Promotes science in European; bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement.
Friends of the Earth Europe - Supports the campaigns and projects of more than 30 national member groups dealing with environmental issues.
United Nations Environment Programme's Office in Europe - Link between units of UNEP and the countries in the region, and promotes collaboration and partnerships in sustainable development.
Europa Bio Association - Promotes biotechnology to industry, politicians, regulators, NGOs, and the public. Site lists regulation news.
European Space Agency - ESA - Resource for European launchers, space science, telecommunications, Earth observation and manned spaceflight. Updated information on launches, spacecraft in orbit and events.
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) - Provides overview of the agency and its activities, projects and events.
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(Dylan Thomas) Organizations To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Organizations A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Organizations "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. 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Woodberry Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Organizations When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Organizations You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar "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) Organizations People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor 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) A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Organizations She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais "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) Organizations The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West 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 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Organizations Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Organizations 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, What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Organizations I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Organizations Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) 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 Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Organizations The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Organizations "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Organizations We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Organizations When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Organizations Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Organizations The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Organizations What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Organizations
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