<p>Mr. B, the complement to that, though not one you can use in your classroom, I don’t think, is: “No cause is so noble that it will not attract its share of fuggheads.” Attributed to either Larry Niven or Jerry Pournelle; I hope the former because I despise the latter.</p>
<p>This is one of my favorite quotes:</p>
<p>“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”</p>
<p>“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910</p>
<p>We have this on our dining room wall</p>
<p>My 9th and 10th grade math teacher’s favorite quote was “Math is Power.” There’s also bumber stickers that say “4/3 people have trouble with fractions.”</p>
<p>" There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can’t."</p>
<p>And the computer geek version of that one:</p>
<p>There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary and those who don’t. </p>
<p>Computerware.com has great math and science joke t-shirts by the way. (This was one of them.)</p>
<p>I loved this one which was on my son’s fourth grade gifted class’s wall:</p>
<p>Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection–in practically anything–is both neurotic and futile.–Edwin Bliss</p>
<p>“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”</p>
<p>“When in doubt, don’t”</p>
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<p>“Comes a time, when a blind man takes your hand and says don’t you see?”
The Grateful Dead</p>
<p>“A ship in the harbor is safe, but thats not what ships are for.”</p>
<p>William Shedd</p>
<p>“Think education is expensive? Try ignorance.” -not known</p>
<p>“Luck is the residue of hard work.” ~Thomas Edison</p>
<p>TheDad - ah, Smith t-shirts. They have, inter alia, “100 Years of Women on Top,” and “Putting Women in Exciting Positions.”</p>
<p>Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect
– Mark Twain</p>
<p>For every complex problem there is usually a solution that is simple – and wrong.
– Anonymous</p>
<p>"The illiteracy level of our children are appalling. George W. Bush</p>
<p>CGM-</p>
<p>One of my more favorite quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>“Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to.” - Satchel Paige</p>
<p>“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” - Anatole France</p>
<p>“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.” - Ashleigh Brilliant</p>
<p>Good for a math/science classroom:</p>
<p>“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” - Thomas Edison</p>
<p>Aries, once when we were visiting the Smith bookstore, a girl was holding up the “A Hundred Years of Women on Top” t-shirt and saying, “Get it, Mom? Get it?”<br>
Gee…I wish our generation had invented sex.</p>
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<p>I just found another that is perfect for my D:</p>
<p>There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don’t.</p>
<p>Since others here think it appropriate to recommend quotes of a political nature I thought I’d join the fun…" a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by the truth"…attributed to Richard John Neuhaus. </p>
<p>Something that Juan Williams of NPR is currently experiencing.</p>
<p>What happened with Juan Williams?</p>
<p>Juan has written a book called “Enough…” that pulls no punches with the current black leadership in America. He argues that Bill Cosby is right in his view that the black community suffers as long as it continues to view itself as a “victim”. According to Juan, self-help and responsibility for one’s own actions are the only ways that those in the the black community are going to be able to move forward from a culture of poverty, etc.</p>
<p>As a result he is being taken to task by that same black establishment and their willing accomplices in “fill in the blank”. Many in the mainstream media won’t interview him while others have brutally savaged his views. </p>
<p>He’s been mugged.</p>
<p>“We drink in victory because we deserve it, and in defeat because we need it.” Winston Churchill. I DARE YOU!</p>
<p>TheDad - I think y’all revolutionized it.</p>