"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Albert Einstein“It is true that Christianity involves a belief in the supernatural. I have no problem with that...I only have a problem when you tell me I must believe what you believe. Religion swell; religion as politics not so fine.” Jon Carroll“A few honest men are better then numbers.” Oliver Cromwell"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.". Confucius"For every complex problem there is an answer that is simple, neat, and wrong.". H. L. Mencken"To much of education is about what to think rather then how to think." Marilyn vos Savant"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein"When everybody's thinking alike no body's thinking." Source-George S. Patton?"Attention is the greatest form of generosity." Quote on Building NYC"If men were angels, no government would be necessary." No 51 of the Federalist Papers by James Madison"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Joseph Stalin?"At times I am not sure if I am dreaming through life or living through a dream." Zen and The Brain by James Austin"Jesus was a liberal" A bumper sticker"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." Ben Franklin"...the ability to be trained, to memorize and even to perform feats has little to do with intelligence. Instead, intelligence is measured by the ability to solve problems." Marilyn Vos Savant"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over." Edna St. Vincent Milay "...in today's world, money has become Go in more than a trivial sense. ..,it appears that Las Vegas is, in effect, the realization of the kingdom of God on earth." Mark C. Taylor, About Religion, p. 5 "Truths are illusions which we have forgotton are illusions..." Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Normal Sense. "Idleness is the beginning of psychology. What? Could psychology be --a vice?" Nietzache's Twilight of the Idols "'All truth is simple'--Is that not a compound lie?" Nietzache's Twilight of the Idols "Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge." Nietzache's Twilight of the Idols "Which is it? Is man only God's mistake or God only man's mistake?" Nietzache's Twilight of the Idols Dance like nobody's watching, Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt. Anonymous "There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. Anonymous "The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief." Frank Barron "What we have in this country is socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor." Gore Vidal "Remember the compliments you recieve. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell us how" Southwest Veterinary Clinic "It is one thing when business is interested in young people as students. Quite another when they are interested in students as consumers. It is one thing when the marketplace supports the schools. Quite another when the schools become a marketplace." Ellen Goodman, "Commercials in the Classroom," Making Sense magazine. "Thinking of the student as customer has some interesting conclusions and consequences Thinking of the student as son or daughter leads to some interesting conclusions and consequences I prefer the student as your son or daughter. Their long range life is critical. They are not a 'profit center' or a market to which goods can be sold." Jim "You need a "loose cannon" to shoot at a moving target." Anonymous "The grand achievement of the present age is the diffusion of superficial knowledge." John Stuart Mill "Those who make the things happen..... Those who watch the things happen.... Those who wonder what happened.... WHICH ONE ARE YOU? Anonymous "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles" George Jean Nathan "People of high intelligence talk about ideas... People of average intelligence talk about things... People of no intelligence talk about other people!" WHICH ONE ARE YOU? Anonymous "Doust thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." Benjamin Franklin "I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand In the doing is the learning" A Chinese proverb "The product of business is money" The product of government and education is service When business loses money it cuts back on its services How does this change the comparison of business and education!" Eric Hawes "Who is the customer of education? Society and Democracy is a customer of education The individual student looking for a high grade is a customer of education The individual's future and his/her ability to think critically, be creative and adapt to future demands and survive is a customer of education Business, looking for trained or trainable employees is a customer of education A well educated person questions the ethics and operations of business and so is potentially dangerous to the profit making motive of business. Anonymous"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when left unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty...." John Quincy Adams "Behind every fortune lies a crime" Honore Balzac(?) "Truth is a liquid not a solid" Christopher Marlowe (?) "Seek out those who seek the truth avoid those who know it" (Source? See below) "Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself." André Gide -Thx Pete Levy "Upon approaching something that is complex one discovers that it is even more complex then originally thought" XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(Any ideas who said this?) "You train a dog, you educate a human" Robert Hutchens (former president University of Chicago) "You don't have to have chains to have slaves" Karl Marx "If given a choice a women would choose polygamy because she would rather have a percentage of a good man then 100% of the typical." George Bernard Shaw "It is easier to obtain forgiveness then to receive permission" Who Knows? "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. . . ." Ralph Waldo Emerson "All property is theft" Pierre Prudhomme (?) (19th century French socialist/anarchist) "The Journey is the reward" Steven Jobs "It use to be, "Publish or perish" but in the current CSU it's Entertain or exit" Anonymous
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