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11 Dec 2006, 6:29 am

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
-Gail Godwin

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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11 Dec 2006, 1:57 pm

"Stick and Stones may break your bones, but whips and chains excite me!"
-First hear by 11th grade Social Studies Teacher

"A Large Sack of Flour makes a big biscuit."

-Heard in a courtroom from a defendant as he was being sentenced in Federal Court in Charlotte, NC around 1996

-Scott

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11 Dec 2006, 2:05 pm

"Everybody but me- CHARGE!"
-Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician, MTG Card

"Make a man a fire, he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
-Don't Remember Who Said It

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12 Dec 2006, 12:01 am

Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark; but a large group of professionals built the Titanic

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12 Dec 2006, 7:13 am

bizarre wrote:

Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark; but a large group of professionals built the Titanic

"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."
- Robert Half

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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12 Dec 2006, 8:33 pm

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
-George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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13 Dec 2006, 7:46 am

"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith."
- Bertrand Russell V. Delong

(needless to say, but just in case)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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14 Dec 2006, 6:30 am

"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."
- Jonathan Swift

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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15 Dec 2006, 3:37 am

"What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities."
- Joseph Addison

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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15 Dec 2006, 2:20 pm

Oye Vey

Bloody Hell.

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15 Dec 2006, 2:30 pm

"The Antichrist is upon us. And he lives across the street."
- The person who lives across the street from me

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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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16 Dec 2006, 7:37 am

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
- William James

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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16 Dec 2006, 1:47 pm

cool thread!! mine is "flippin heck!"

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16 Dec 2006, 5:18 pm

"House. House. House,
You are made of stone,
But you are not alone-ly house."

- Rik From The Young Ones

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16 Dec 2006, 5:31 pm

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
- Robert X. Cringely

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
Rises as gladly in the single tree
As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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17 Dec 2006, 8:17 am

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)

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"The cordial quality of pear or plum
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As in the whole orchards resonant with bees."
- Emerson

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