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'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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

"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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

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