Thoughts to Ponder

[Peerless1]

 :o Just a few thoughts from iGoogle that may or may not be of interest to the forums of late:

^_^ Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
  - Evan Esar

:banghead: In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
  - AE Housman

;) Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
  - Robert Frost  :P

Although I know it's not always easy, let's look out for one another.  We're all this game has left... :blink:

[ow_tiobe_sb]

On the contrary, character is the first refuge of panicked acting trying to reify itself.

Let's not limit ourselves to Americans (and cause a hubbub in the process), for 'tis a phenomenon that applies more broadly.  Besides, the paradigm appears to have changed since Housman's time.  In today's political climate, there is an air of diabolical cunning that seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Frost seems to have gotten it right (as his poetry--more often than his prose--does).  The consequence of this sentiment is clear: we suffer from a severe lack of education.

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Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

[Peerless1]

 :D
As far as limiting it to Americans...I am one, and did not wish to offend my international counterparts (across the "Pond" or otherwise).  ;)
Let us not forget:

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
  - Oscar Wilde

I mean, seriously!  :lol:

1 for our feline forum friends:
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in
Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive
them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
  - Albert Einstein

[ow_tiobe_sb]

... And "Shallowness is the supreme vice." (OW, from, IIRC, De Profundis).

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Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

[The Phantom Eyebrow]

All you artsie-types have such cool quotes to call upon from your educations.  I learned stuff along the lines of: "A ray box is just a box with a bulb", "In minus out equals accumulation" and "You can't push a rope"

Stirs the soul it does.

[stumpy]

I am a fan of

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

BTW, TPE, your quotes remind me that one of my engineering professors passed down on machine design, probably given to him in his youth:

If in doubt,
  Make it stout,
  Out of things
  You know about.

[Silver Shocker]

I agree with the first two quotes. They hit home quite a bit for me.

[zuludelta]

Nothing deep or profound, but I always found the following quote to be amusing:

"I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake."

- Umberto Eco (in an October 2002 Book magazine interview)

I'm surprised Marvel's marketing department hasn't latched onto it and used it. It it isn't a ringing endorsement for the use of comics as educational material, I don't know what is!

[Epimethee]

> I'm surprised Marvel's marketing department hasn't latched onto it and used it. I

It's because the Marvel Bullpen marketing staff don't know who Eco is. :P