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

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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

"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

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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

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

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

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

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

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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 Sunday December 31 2006

My Theme Song

I’ve found my theme song and video for this blog. Weird Al has got to be one of the most talented musicians around. Love him or Hate him, there’s no denying his talent. My theme song is White and Nerdy.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Dec 31, 2006 at 11:52 AM
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scott wrote 12 words  on  Thursday Jan 4, 2007  at  12:30 AM Korea (South)

Good stuff. Donny Osmond dancing in the background was a good touch.

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