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| "These kids were smart, they were
enthusiastic, and they were young enough so that schools hadn't
destroyed all their interest in learning. They could still actually
use their brains, which in Thorne's view was a sure sign they hadn't
yet completed formal education." |
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| "Getting an education was a bit like a
communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs
and then you had the urge to pass it on." |
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- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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| "Education makes a people easy to lead,
but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to
enslave." |
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- Lord Brougham (1778 - 1868), Scottish Whig politician. Speech to
the House of Commons (29 January 1828).
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| "Blessings upon Cadmus, the
Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books." |
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- Thomas Carlyle, Letter to R. Mitchell
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| "Books and ideas are the greatest
weapons against intolerance and ignorance." |
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| "To prohibit the reading of certain
books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools of
slaves." |
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| "Books had instant replay long before
televised sports." |
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If your plan is for a year, plant
rice.
If your plan is for a decade, plant trees.
If your plan is for a lifetime, educate children. |
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- Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551 - c. 479 BC).
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| "Maybe the essence of education is not
to stuff you with facts, but to help you to discover your uniqueness,
to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it
away." |
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| "The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled." |
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| "Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught." |
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| "After finding no qualified candidates
for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased
to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post." |
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- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode
Island
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| "This year, Americans will spend more money
on fast food than on higher education." |
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| "Honestly, Darling! You are the
most graceless and dimwitted bumpkin I have ever met!" |
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| "Forgive your enemies, but never forget
their names." |
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| "May the forces of evil become confused
on the way to your house." |
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| "Even if you do learn to speak correct
English, who are you going to speak it to?" |
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| "The pitcher wound up and he flang the
ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the
ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right
to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the
ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he
dropped it." |
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| "It is generally agreed that 'Hello' is
an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said
'Goodbye,' it could cause a lot of confusion." |
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- Dolph Sharp, "I'm OK, You're Not So Hot"
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| "It's is no, it isn't ain't, and it's
it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too,
it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and
likewise yours and theirs." |
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- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
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You can wear old jeans or tuxedo,
Be clean-shaven or look like Ito,
Whatever your sex,
When you're at Mad Mex,
You're welcome to eat our burrito. |
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| "I think that all right-thinking people
in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent
people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I'm
certainly not! But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!" |
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| "Complete equality means universal
irresponsibility." |
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| "Instead of Batman and Robin, they are
Batman and Batman now." |
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- Anthony L. Gargano on Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen
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| "I am free of all prejudices. I hate
everyone equally." |
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The journey to excellence is often
beset by a great deal of tests to pass. Be prepared.
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| "If you don't do it excellently, don't
do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or
fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell
are you doing there?" |
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- Robert Townsend, Farther Up the Organization (1984)
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| "These are times in which a genius
would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the
repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed... Great
necessities call out great virtues." |
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- Abigail Adams (19 January 1780)
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| "If a man has done his best, what else
is there?" |
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| "When I was a child, my mother said to
me, 'If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become
a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter
and wound up as Picasso." |
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| "Attitude, not aptitude, determines
altitude." |
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| "Don't be afraid to give your best to
what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you
that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will
tend to take care of themselves." |
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- Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955)
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| "You can not create experience. You
must undergo it." |
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- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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| "Experience is the name every one gives
his mistakes." |
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- Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams
(1923).
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| "You tell me, and I forget. You teach
me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn." |
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| "We should be careful to get out of an
experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be
like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit
down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will
never sit down on a cold one anymore." |
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| "Experience is that marvelous thing
that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again." |
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| "Human beings, who are almost unique in
having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also
remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." |
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Journal of
Young Investigators: The premier online undergraduate
research journal. |
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| "An expert is a man who has made all
the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." |
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| "My opinions may have changed, but not
the fact that I am right." |
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After
posting a profit, it appears that Amazon.com is not among
the numerous online failures. |
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| "In great attempts it is glorious even
to fail." |
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- Vince Lombardi, former Green Bay Packers head coach
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| "Failure is not an option!" |
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- Gene Kranz, Flight Director, Apollo XIII
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| "He that is down needs fear no
fall." |
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| "How far high failure overleaps the
bounds of low successes." |
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- Lewis Morris (1835 - 1907), Welsh Poet, Epic of Hades
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| "But there is no joy in Mudville,
mighty Casey has struck out." |
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| "I don't know the key to success, but
the key to failure is trying to please everybody." |
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| "I can accept failure. Everyone fails
at something. But I can't accept not trying." |
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| "If we don't succeed, we run the risk
of failure." |
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| "Failure is not an option. It
comes bundled with your Microsoft product." |
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| "You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try." |
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| "Many of life's failures are people who
did not realize how close they were to success when they gave
up." |
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| "Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a
bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn." |
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| "An ideal cannot wait for its
realization to prove its validity." |
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| "When you come to the edge of all the
light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the
unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be
something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." |
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Upromise
allows you to save money for your child's college
education. |
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| "A mother is not a person to lean on
but a person to make leaning unnecessary." |
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| "The ideal parents know they don't know
everything." |
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| "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to
my angel mother." |
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- Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President (Senior Page)
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| "When I was a boy of 14, my father was
so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when
I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned
in seven years." |
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| "A
fanatic is one that cannot change his mind and will not change the
subject." |
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| "Those who make peaceful revolution
impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." |
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- John F. Kennedy, former U.S. President
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One
of my favorite games. |
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| "The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself." |
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- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "Curiosity will conquer fear even more
than bravery will." |
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| "You gain strength, courage and
confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the
face." |
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| "Since love and fear can hardly exist
together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared
than loved." |
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- Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Renaissance statesman, diplomat, and
writer.
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| "Knowledge is the antidote to
fear." |
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| "The greatest lesson in life is to know
that even fools are right sometimes." |
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| "Suffer fools gladly. They may be
right." |
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- Holbrook Jackson (1874 - 1948)
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| "Nothing looks so like a man of sense
as a fool who holds his tongue." |
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| "'Tis better to remain silent and
thought a fool then to speak and remove all doubt." |
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- Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President
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| "Let us be thankful for the fools. Were
it not for them, the rest of us could not succeed." |
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| "Blessed is the man who, having nothing
to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the
fact." |
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| "A great many people think they are
thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." |
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| "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." |
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- Matt Damon as Mike McDermott in Rounders
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| "No man is free who is not master
of himself." |
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- Epictetus, Roman stoic philosopher (c. 60 - 120 AD).
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| "Complete possession is proved only by
giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." |
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| "He who will not reason, is a bigot, he
who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave." |
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| "A free press can of course be good or
bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything
but bad. Freedom means nothing but a chance to be better, whereas
enslavement is a certainty of the worse." |
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- Albert Camus, French novelist, essayist (1913 - 1960)
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| "The meaning of America is not to be
found in a life without toil. Freedom is not only bought with a great
price; it is maintained by unremitting effort." |
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- Calvin Coolidge, former US President
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| "A friend might well be reckoned the
masterpiece of nature." |
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| "One soul dwelling in two bodies." |
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| "A friend is a gift you give
yourself." |
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| "We have been friends together in
sunshine and in shade." |
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| "Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A
farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again
after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends." |
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| "Cherish friendship in your breast. New
is good but old is best. Make new friends but keep the old, new is
silver, the other is gold." |
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| "A friend is one before whom I may
think aloud." |
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| "You can make more friends in two
months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two
years by trying to get other people interested in you." |
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| "True friendship is a plant of slow
growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before
it is entitled to appellation." |
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| "My best friend is the one who brings
out the best in me!" |
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| "It's funny, don't ever tell anybody
anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." |
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| "Even the best of friends cannot attend
each other's funeral." |
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- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
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| "True friendship is a plant of slow
growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before
it is entitled to appellation." |
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| "The most I can do for my friend is
simply to be his friend." |
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| "Friendship with oneself is all
important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else
in the world." |
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| "But friendship is precious, not only
in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent
arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine." |
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