It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

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---- Steve Dembo