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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

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

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

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

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

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

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

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

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

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

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

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

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

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

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 Friday August 01 2008

Moving the Fence

Infrequent blogger Fencerider is moving out of Korea after 12 years. It seems like he has recieved an excellent opportunity in the UAE, something I’ve considered doing, but haven’t. Good luck and I hope you continue your blog from there.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Aug 1, 2008 at 02:24 PM
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fencerider wrote 38 words  on  Monday Aug 4, 2008  at  04:59 PM Korea (South)

certainly will...i’ll let you know how it goes via the blog when I can....
I hope to be less infrequent since i will have more personal time (not needing to work 40 hours a week to support 2.5kids)

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