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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
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
"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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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---- Steve Dembo
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
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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 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
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Farenheit 911
Haven’t seen Farenheit 911 yet? Well now you can download it here. I enjoyed this movie and it confirmed a lot of my beliefs, but when you watch it, it is important to take it with a grain of salt. Moore has an agenda and that is very clear. While he doesn’t outright lie in the film he does manipulate things by having events and quotes out of chronological order. All-in-all this is a must see.
Found via Kerim
Thee wrote 208 words on Friday Oct 29, 2004 at 02:29 PM
As a grown man, I have tears of gratitude in my eyes, as I seriously thank Mark Perkel for making this movie available. Or more precisely, for making a “blip on the public radar screen” to let a much wider audience know that this movie is available to view for free.
There ARE many, many people like myself (for example, all my friends, family and co-workers) that would not have known that Fahrenheit 9/11 was freely available, except for the clamor caused by Mark Perkel’s action.
In my humble opinion, Mark Perkel could NOT have spent his money any better. Even, if he had purchased flu vaccine and made it freely available to those “at risk” groups that will not receive the vaccine this year because of “our” goverment.
I suspect that in this year, Bush’s policies and his war have killed, maimed and caused more grief and agony for American families than the flu will. Multiply that by the duration of his administration and there is no doubt that Bush is a much worse disease on this planet than the flu and has to be stopped!
Perhaps, just perhaps, Fahrenheit 9/11 is the vaccine for Bush. There is no such thing as making a vaccine too available.