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***************************** NOTE: The following quotations have been collected from a variety of sources ... from e-mail notes and signatures, bulletin boards, the ASCD SmartBrief and from other sources, as well, over some time. ***************************** "The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age." (Lucille Ball) "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." (Sir Barnett Cocks) [From Otis Taylor] "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." (Rene Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician) "I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up." (Beverly Sills, opera singer) "The first step to wisdom is silence. The second is listening." (Chinese Proverb) "One good teacher outweighs a ton of books." (Chinese Proverb) "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." (Elizabeth Taylor) [From Otis Taylor] "A lie has speed but truth has endurance" (Edgar Mohn) "The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." (David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist and peace activist) "A poem represents the mastering, even if just for a moment, of the pessimism and the melancholy, and enables you - you the poet, and you, the reader - to go on." (Philip Larkin) [From the signature of Richard Moore] "No one gets rich teaching, but no one lives a richer life." (Unknown) "It takes a long time to grow an old friend." (John Leonard) "Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." (Gilda Radner, alias Rosanne Rosannadanna) [In the signature of Mary Ciaccio] "Teaching is properly done by hunch, by intuition, by experience, by ideology; what it also needs is a basis in scientific research." (Nathaniel "Nate" Lees Gage, Deceased (2008) Professor Emeritus, Stanford University) "There is no failure except in no longer trying." (Elbert Hubbard, American writer) "Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." (Langston Hughes, American poet) "A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." (Phyllis Diller, American comedian)