Fredrick Miller
Furman University
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Selected Quotations
"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making."
-- John Milton, Areopagitica (1644).
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
-- Abigail Adams, Letter to John Quincy Adams (May 8, 1780).
"We should be careful to get out of on an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more."
-- Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897), Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, 11.
"You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows."
-- Bob Dylan, 'Subterranean Homesick Blues', (1965).
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
-- John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy", (1980).
"There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they Do... Not... Know about it!"
-- Jones, Tommie Lee, perf. Men in Black. Dir. Barry Sonnenfield. Writ. Lowell Cunningham and Ed Solomon. Columbia Pictures, (1997).
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