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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
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
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
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
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
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
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
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
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison





David V. wrote 16 words on Monday Dec 7, 2009 at 10:03 PM
So good I had to nick it for my blog, but at least I linked here.