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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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
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
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---- Steve Dembo
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Kickin it in GeumChon!!
This is freakin’ funny! Kickin’ it in 금촌 - Music video made by 3 foreigners in a small town in Korea - outstanding! I laughed a lot.
hat tip to shooting words and socius. Lyrics available here. I’ll probably show this to some students this week.





Iceberg wrote 6 words on Friday Mar 28, 2008 at 05:32 AM
Very good. Boys got some talent.