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To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
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
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
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)
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
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
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
"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
Protagonize
Do you remember choose your own adventure books? Now something similar is available one the internet and the potential uses for language teaching are very very obvious. Go read the article at CBC, Neverending story: Protagonize.com pushes the limits of interactive fiction and then visit the Protaganize web site. I just woke up and found this so haven’t had time to explore yet.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jan 10, 2008 at 05:49 AM
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