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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Finished!
The final essay for this semester is officially completed. I just posted it a couple of minutes ago. I am now free for a couple of weeks and am looking forward to some leisure time, mostly reading books.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Jun 18, 2004 at 04:16 PM
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Dan wrote 9 words on Saturday Jun 19, 2004 at 01:14 PM
Otsukaresama! (“It has been a long day,” in Japanese.)