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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
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
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
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
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
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
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
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
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Wordpress for EFL learners
James Farmer has announced a new service providing free wordpress powered blogs to EFL/ESL learners,cleverly titled eslblogs. I actually handed out my syllabus today and directed my students to uniblogs (another James Farmer project) for my classroom blogging project before I checked my RSS reader, otherwise I would have directed them to eslblogs. I also learned that James was an EFL teacher in the past.
In other news - the baby still hasn’t come. If it doesn’t come before Thursday night we will be having it on Friday as we have scheduled an induction for that date.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Feb 27, 2006 at 05:02 PM
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James wrote 10 words on Tuesday Feb 28, 2006 at 05:48 AM
Thanks for the link & good luck with the baby!