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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

"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

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

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

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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