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| #4881 | | ... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human
intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as
we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues
that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding
of their world, not in their distorted perceptions. Even the standard
example of ancient nonsense -- the debate about angels on pinheads --
makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing
whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a
finite or an infinite number.
-- S. J. Gould, "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds"
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| #4882 | | Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two points.
-- M. M. Johnston
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| #4883 | | Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness
of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule."
-- David Guaspari
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| #4884 | | Dear Freshman,
You don't know who I am and frankly shouldn't care, but
unknown to you we have something in common. We are both rather
prone to mistakes. I was elected Student Government President by
mistake, and you came to school here by mistake.
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| #4885 | | Dear Miss Manners:
My home economics teacher says that one must never place one's
elbows on the table. However, I have read that one elbow, in between
courses, is all right. Which is correct?
Gentle Reader:
For the purpose of answering examinations in your home economics
class, your teacher is correct. Catching on to this principle of
education may be of even greater importance to you now than learning
correct current table manners, vital as Miss Manners believes that is.
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| #4886 | | Department chairmen never die, they just lose their faculties.
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| #4887 | | Did you know the University of Iowa closed down after someone stole the book?
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| #4888 | | Do not clog intellect's sluices with bits of knowledge of questionable uses.
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| #4889 | | Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education
is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get
when you don't.
-- Pete Seeger
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| #4890 | | Do you think that illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
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