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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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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.
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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.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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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.
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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

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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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

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

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

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

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 Monday April 13 2009

An interview with me

A few days ago I was interviewed by email for Why They Teach. If you’re interested in learning more about me go check it out.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Apr 13, 2009 at 07:06 AM
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