"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy Localities Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Localities When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
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looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Localities blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Localities
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Localities Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Localities
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Localities "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Localities
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Localities In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
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- Albert Einstein Localities
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Localities "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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