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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

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

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

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

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

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 Friday November 16 2007

Oxford Day 2007

Oxford Day is tomorrow November 17th at Ewha Womens University. Speakers include:
Rod Ellis
Lyle Bachman
Ritsuko Nakata
Ken Wilson
Richard R. Day
Patrick Jackson

I’ll be there and if I have some time over the weekend, unlikely, I’ll write up a review of the presentations.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Nov 16, 2007 at 09:33 AM
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