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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
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
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
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
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
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
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
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
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
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
More on Volunteering
Readers may recall that I directed them to a post by the FenceRider, last month, on Volunteer English Teaching. Today he has posted two updates on the benefits of volunteering for F2 or F5 visa holders: Why Teach for Free and Unexpected Developments.
After not teaching privates for 7 years I’ve decided to take on one as soon as I can find one, but unfortunately I don’t live in the Daegu area. If you do, be sure to read his post and take advantage of the opportunity.
I would also like to hear from readers who volunteer teach. Do you find the experience rewarding? Any difficulties with immigration?
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Apr 18, 2007 at 05:00 PM
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Fencerider wrote 32 words on Thursday Apr 19, 2007 at 08:14 AM
Thanks for the heads up and free advertising. You also caught my mistake. I should have mentioned F5 holders as well since they may have even more at stake in their communities.