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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot News and Media "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen News and Media
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning News and Media An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) News and Media
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger News and Media God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison News and Media "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower 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 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston News and Media When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "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) News and Media "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton News and Media
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) News and Media
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) News and Media 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 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 News and Media
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi News and Media You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton 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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz News and Media
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed News and Media I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long News and Media
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett News and Media Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana News and Media
