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

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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Sunday June 29 2008

SnapShots Keep ‘em or tank em?

SnapShots - Yea or Nay?

I received a comment about the redesign suggesting that I get rid of the SnapShots preview of external links. I’m not sure how I feel about them right now myself, so I’ll leave this decision up to my readers. Come to the site and vote in the poll.

update

Not many votes, but anyhow I’ve removed the snapshots.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Jun 29, 2008 at 11:43 AM
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Mark wrote 7 words  on  Wednesday Jul 9, 2008  at  07:36 PM Taiwan

Thanks.  That was pretty fast turn around!

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