Friday, September 28, 2007

Robert Frost

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

George W. Bush

Answering his own rhetorical question, "Is our children learning?", the President says, "Childrens do learn."

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Malcolm Forbes

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Roberta Smith

"Never underestimate the amount of resentment and hostility we harbor toward artists. It springs largely from envy. They can behave quite badly, but mainly they operate with a kind of freedom and courage that other people don’t risk or enjoy. And it can lead to wondrous things." - From a New York Times Article: Is It Art Yet? And Who Decides?

Friday, September 21, 2007

Oscar Wilde

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Fran Lebowitz

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
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Monday, September 17, 2007

Eric Hoffer

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Adolf Hitler

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
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Saturday, September 8, 2007

Bertrand Russell

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
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Friday, September 7, 2007

A. A. Milne

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste."
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." [Quotes of the Day]

George Santayana

"Music is essentially useless, as life is."
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