I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: “I served in the United States Navy.” -John F. Kennedy-
Monthly Archives: May 2019
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I remember the good old days of great software. Opera web browser before version 12; Corel WordPerfect before version 12; … press me and I’ll tell you about Word Star.
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[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive…. our word “school” — and its equivalent in all European languages — derives from a Greek word meaning “leisure.” -Peter Drucker-
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. -Pete Seeger-
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The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world. The problem is with man himself and man’s soul. -Martin Luther King, Jr.-
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Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one [which would] send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth — boxes of Crayolas. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination instead of death. A child who touched one wouldn’t have his hand blown off. -Robert Fulghum-
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. -Robert Maynard Hutchins-
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. -Albert Edward Wiggam-