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---- Author 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

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 Thursday March 13 2008

TEFL bloggers Unite!

Alex Case is reporting on some (il)legal troubles that bloggers are encountering with one individual on the internet. It seems that this individual is threatening to sue owners of blogs even when said blogs have written nothing about this individual on their own blogs.

It also appears that he has been somewhat successful in shutting down two bloggers already. He is currently targeting Alex - go read Alex’s post and offer your support.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Mar 13, 2008 at 04:35 PM
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Alex Case wrote 2 words  on  Friday Mar 14, 2008  at  10:55 PM Japan

Thanks EFLG!

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