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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
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
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
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
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Cafe Alternative
It seems that Dave’s Cafe is not as popular as it once was. Katie has the lowdown on the move to ELT World. I remember reading one other blog mentioning the same thing, but can’t find the link now.
In any case it doesn’t appear to have affected the Korea forums.
Katie said:
David is an EFL teacher in Turkey, and started the site as his contribution towards making EFL a better “place” for teachers. In an interview with TEFL News, he mentioned that he makes it a priority not to suspend members because they make unfavorable comments towards companies which pay to advertise on his site. There is an innovative solution to threads that get a bit out of hand – threads which might be closed or deleted elsewhere – and that is the Fight Club. In this corner of the site, those who are so inclined can argue to their hearts’ content. Making top bill at the Fight Club are a thread on Been banned from ESL Cafe and the Emerging story about TEFL International.
While there is a bit of apparently open discussion about the Café (and that is what I elected to focus on in this post), ELT World is not an anti-Café or anything like that. There is genuine discussion going on about a variety of topics, most of which have nothing to do with other EFL sites and much to do with teaching English
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jan 24, 2008 at 08:30 PM
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David Vincent wrote 17 words on Monday Jan 28, 2008 at 04:11 AM
Great to have you at the ELT World forums. Look forward to more lively discussion.
David V.