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Letters of Philip II, King of Spain, 1592-1597 - These letters from Philip II, King of Spain, mainly to Don Diego de Orellana de Chaves, Royal Governor of Spain's northern coast, date from the time of naval war against England and France, 1592-1597.
Exhibition Albert and Isabela - Includes general information, pictures, drawings, and music regarding the Spanish Low Countries at the time of the archdukes.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project, The - Consists of an electronic edition of her complete works based on the text of Adolfo Méndez Plancarte and Alberto G. Salceda.
Isabella I of Spain - An illustrated biography and links to more information.
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Historical Personages He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Historical Personages Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards Historical Personages There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Historical Personages "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Historical Personages The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Historical Personages A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Historical Personages The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Historical Personages The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Historical Personages The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Historical Personages "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Historical Personages If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous Historical Personages Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Historical Personages The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Historical Personages If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Historical Personages Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Historical Personages "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Historical Personages "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Historical Personages "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Historical Personages We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Historical Personages Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Historical Personages Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Historical Personages
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