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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Education If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Education
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Education He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Education
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Education "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Education
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Education Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Education
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Education Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Education
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Education We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Education
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Education "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Education
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Education "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Education You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Education A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
