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      October/November 2005

 

 

 

12/5/05
A good friend will help you move.  A really good friend will help you move a body.
        – Uncle Jamil

11/24/05
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
        – Confucius

11/23/05
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
        – William Torrey Harris
           US Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906

11/18/05
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
        – Mark Twain

11/7/05
In theory, theory and practice are the same.  In practice, practice and theory have little correlation.
        – Zack Cleary

10/24/05
The philosophers have only interpreted the world.  The point, however, is to change it.
        – Karl Marx

10/24/05
If there's no dancing, count me out.
        – Emma Goldman (on the Russian Revolution)

10/20/05
These animals are so treacherous that they defend themselves against attack.
        – Anonymous Frenchman

10/7/05
The people are that part of the state which does not know what it wants.
        – Georg Hegel

10/5/05
If you're going through hell, keep going.
        – Winston Churchill

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

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