- Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a
losttradition.
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–– Jacques Barzun
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its
pupils.
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–– Hector Louis Berlioz
- It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and
still be entirely uneducated.
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–– Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed
- It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin,
barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is
known, but to question it.
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–– J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
- The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than
dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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–– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other
people sleep.
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–– Albert Camus
- A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
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–– Thomas Carruthers
- Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
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–– Chinese Proverb
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses
interest in students.
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–– John Ciardi
- The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to
those who want to learn.
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–– Cicero
- The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian
champagne.
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–– Robertson Davies
- Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three
pillars of learning.
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–– Benjamin Disraeli
- The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of
bones from one graveyard to another.
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–– Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945
- Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
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–– Norman Douglas
- How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so
stupid? It must be education that does it.
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–– Alexandre Dumas fils
- If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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–– Tryon Edwards
- It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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–– Albert Einstein
- Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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–– Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the
natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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–– Anatole France
- You are educated when you have the ability to listen to
almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
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–– Robert Frost
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.
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–– Gail Godwin
- The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you
to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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–– Russell Green
- I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA
here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember.
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–– Shecky Greene
- Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent
over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content
with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any
other role.
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–– William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education,
1889
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the
ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not.
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–– Aldous Huxley
- Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds
are dimmed.
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–– Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" -
a typo?)
- If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have
studied harder.
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–– Pope John Paul I
- To teach is to learn twice.
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–– Joseph Joubert
- An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot
be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant
teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The
curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element
for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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–– Carl Gustav Jung
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes
are so small.
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–– Henry Kissinger
- Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st
century.
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–– Bob Perelman
- A university professor set an examination question in which
he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had
to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care.
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–– Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20
July 1990
- Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
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–– John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in
physics)
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a
great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the
past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those
who control the teaching of the young.
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–– Bertrand Russell
- It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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–– Leslie Jeanne Sahler
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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–– George Bernard Shaw
- Education is what survives when what has been learned has
been forgotten.
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–– B.F. Skinner
- The philosophy exam was a piece of cake –– which was a bit of
a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of
paper.
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–– Smith & Jones
- I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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–– Socrates
- Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but
unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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–– G. M. Trevelyan
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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–– Mark Twain
- The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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–– William Arthur Ward
- If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you
ever need to get.
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–– John Watson, University of Canterbury
- The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's
discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks,
and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
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–– Virginia Woolf
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- Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us;
but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak;
speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with
your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence,
say what you are.
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–– Alford
- I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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–– Anonymous
- The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the
tongue.
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–– Anonymous
- There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say –– unless
you insist on saying it.
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–– Anonymous
- The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you
must say something or bust.
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–– Josh Billings
- The true spirit of conversation consists in building on
another man's observation, not overturning it.
-
–– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any
harm.
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–– Calvin Coolidge
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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–– Gandhi
- Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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–– Ernesto "Che" Guevara
- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never
listen.
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–– Ernest Hemingway
- The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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–– Kin Hubbard
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn
marble of a great sculpture.
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–– Aldous Huxley
- Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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–– Stanislaw J. Lec
- I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very
least he can do is to shut up.
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–– Tom Lehrer
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak
out and remove all doubt.
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–– Abraham Lincoln
- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see
themselves.
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–– Abraham Lincoln
- Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and
just as hard to sleep after.
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–– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a
while you'll see why.
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–– Mignon McLaughlin
- He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of
that.
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–– John Stuart Mill
- We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to
stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil
still.
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–– John Stuart Mill
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are truly endless.
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–– Mother Teresa
- It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when
his lips moved, her body sang.
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–– Tom Robbins
- The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of
conversation but not the power of speech.
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–– George Bernard Shaw
- He had occasional flashes of silence that made his
conversation perfectly delightful.
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–– Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
- If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes
impossible.
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–– James McNeill Whistler
- Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than
brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.
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–– Virginia Woolf, Mrs.
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- You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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–– Albert Camus
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
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–– Albert Einstein
- Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
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–– Elbert Hubbard
- Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with
what happens to you.
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–– Aldous Huxley
- Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with
what happens to you.
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–– Aldous Huxley
- Experience teaches only the teachable.
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–– Aldous Huxley
- Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before
presenting the lesson.
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–– Vernon Law
- Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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–– Vince Lombardi
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from
experience.
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–– George Bernard Shaw
- Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have
walked in his moccasins.
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–– Sioux Indian Prayer
- Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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–– Don Stanford
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the
true success is to labour.
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–– Robert L. Stevenson
- Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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–– Oscar Wilde
- Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
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–– Oscar Wilde
- Good judgement comes from experience, and experience––well,
that comes from poor judgement.
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–– Cousin Woodman
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- If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you
will have succeeded.
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–– Maya Angelou
- There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The
opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is
also true.
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–– Neils Bohr
- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But
the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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–– Niels Bohr
- Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It
is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.
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–– William Jennings Bryant
- To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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–– Francis Crawford
- Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
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–– Josephus Daniels
- ... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't
work.
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–– Thomas Edison
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything
new.
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–– Albert Einstein
- Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are
usually right.
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–– Henry Ford
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat
without losing heart.
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–– Robert G. Ingersoll
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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–– James Joyce
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is
more important than any other one thing.
-
–– Abraham Lincoln
- The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to
deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-
–– Abraham Lincoln
- Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed
after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any
great victory.
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–– Orison Swett Marden
- No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
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–– David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism
- What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
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–– Robert Schuller
- What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
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–– Robert Schuller
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if
you don't try.
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–– Beverly Sills
- Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your
own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be
anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
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–– Sydney Smith
- Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the
smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life
better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an
earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little
better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
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–– Arnold Toynbee
- If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a
few blisters.
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–– Abigail Van Buren
- It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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–– Gore Vidal
- Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the
true failure.
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–– George E. Woodberry
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- It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is
judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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–– Arnold Bennett
- Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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–– Samuel Butler
- A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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–– Fr. Jerome Cummings
- It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same
human being.
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–– Benjamin Disraeli
- I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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–– Euripides
- My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
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–– Henry Ford
- There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and
ready money.
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–– Benjamin Franklin
- When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if
there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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–– E. W. Howe
- Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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–– Thomas Jones
- The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing
with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are
utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and
number as their most sacred experiences.
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–– Eugene Kennedy
- The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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–– Abraham Lincoln
- The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their
friends thought I didn't exist.
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–– Aaron Machado
- When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it
is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments
of defeat.
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–– Henry Miller
- A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for
this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
-
–– Friedrich Nietzsche
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not
born until they arrive.
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–– Anaïs Nin
- We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
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–– Caroline Norton
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean
the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice,
solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds
with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement,
who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the
reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
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–– Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude
- Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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–– Samuel Paterson
- Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives
untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life
may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were
it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
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–– Rainer Maria Rilke
- Friends need not agree in everything or go always together,
or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary,
in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more
ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
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–– George Santayana
- Good friends are good for your health.
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–– Irwin Sarason
- Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to
be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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–– Sydney Smith
- A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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–– Robert Louis Stevenson
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world
walks out.
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–– Walter Winchell
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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–– Virginia Woolf
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- Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it
over your head.
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–– Carol Burnett
- You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started
walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where
the hell she is.
-
–– Ellen DeGeneres
- The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at
seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
-
–– Jean Kerr
- I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-
–– Carol Leifer
- A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-
–– George H. Mead
- I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn
the tapes.
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–– Richard Nixon, U.S. President
- I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-
–– Mark Twain
- You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of
Ex-Lax––tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.
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–– Pearl Williams
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- If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix
user to show you how it's done.
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–– Scott Adams
- There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart
death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
-
–– Guy Almes
- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD
and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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–– Jeremy S. Anderson
- If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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–– John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life
- Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day:
didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to
work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of
usenet.
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–– Anonymous
- If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but
garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is
somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
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–– Anonymous
- Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the
radio on!
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–– Rory Bremner
- The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for
some people it is a complete substitute for life.
-
–– Andrew Brown
- Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to
read.
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–– Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
- By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built,
everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they
felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and
is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was
never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet
software which is analogous to the above.
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–– Ken Iverson
- Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a
potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.
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–– Guy Kawasaki
- I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and
end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
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–– D. H. Lawrence
- Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards
came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was
difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country
know about it.
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–– Mark Leeper
- Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be
spelled ABUSENET?
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–– Michael Meissner
- In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been
spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to
another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has
ever linked up to.
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–– Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live," U.S. television
show
- The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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–– Jerry Olson
- There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in
his home.
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–– Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World
Future Society, 1977
- Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied
them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody
thinks of complaining.
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–– Jeff Raskin
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- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether
men do.
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–– B. F. Skinner
- If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill
pens.
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–– Joseph Snipp
- Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea
–– massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
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–– Gene Spafford
- If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit
pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would
conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
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–– Rob Stampfli
- Men have become the tools of their tools.
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–– Henry David Thoreau
- Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over
everything, except over technology.
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–– John Tudor
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