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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.
Old School
Frank Blue you're my boy
Richard Milhous Nixon
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
John Keats
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul
William C. Bagley
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings
Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
Eric Hoffer
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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Correction: Quote of the year list - Seattle TimesMon, 22 Dec 2008 19:17:00 GMT
In a Dec. 14 list of the Top 10 quotes of 2008 as compiled by the Yale Book of Quotations, The Associated Press, relying on information from the book's editor, incorrectly ...
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Lao Tzu
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Andy Warhol
It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.
Maurice Chevalier
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Alighieri Dante
Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
William Blake
To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Jeb Stuart Magruder
I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.
Richard Milhous Nixon
You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam
Arthur Koestler
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.
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Npower is to be fined £1.8 million after it failed to take sufficient action to prevent mis-selling of contracts to customers. Energy regulator Ofgem found that npower breached ...
Correction: Quote of the year list - Seattle TimesMon, 22 Dec 2008 19:17:00 GMT
In a Dec. 14 list of the Top 10 quotes of 2008 as compiled by the Yale Book of Quotations, The Associated Press, relying on information from the book's editor, incorrectly ...
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Mother Teresa
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Clive Staples Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
David Pratt
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.
John Ruskin
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
Sir Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Michaelangelo
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
Samuel Hazo
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
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Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian NewsMon, 22 Dec 2008 17:37:00 GMT
Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada representing the faction of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko in the parliamentary investigative commission for the work of the National Bank of Ukraine ...
Canadian dollar opens at 82.51 cents US, up 0.74 of a cent - Canada EastMon, 22 Dec 2008 13:27:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 82.51 cents US this morning, up 0.74 of a cent. The U.S. dollar stood at 121.20 cents Cdn, down 1.10 cents. Pound sterling worth C$1.7929 ...
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E. M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Edward R. Murrow
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Brian Sutton-Smith
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.
George Sarton, History of Science
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
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Today you are receiving two Christmas gifts (or alternatively, holiday gifts) — one from me and one from the publisher. My gift is another selection of humorous or uplifting or ...
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Euripides
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
Gerald R. Ford
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Jerome Seymour Bruner
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Woodrow Wilson
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
William Cowper
O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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Sherwood Ross - OpEdNews.comSun, 21 Dec 2008 22:25:00 GMT
Sherwood Ross has worked as a publicist for Chicago; as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and workplace columnist for Reuters. He has also been a media consultant to colleges ...
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