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The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Education "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Education
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Education The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "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.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Education
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Education Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 Education
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Education Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Education
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Education None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Education
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Education Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Education
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi 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" The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Education
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Education "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Education
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Education What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Education
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) 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 Education 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Education
