Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

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

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

"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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

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

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

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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---- Steve Dembo

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

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