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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
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
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
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.