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On speaking up in class

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

On diplomacy

"We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis." (Spock - A taste of Armagedon)

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

__Viktor Frankl

"Blues do not promise that people will not be unhappy, but that unhappiness can be transcended, not by faith in God, but by faith in one's own ability to accept unhappiness without ever conceding oneself to it." Gerald Early

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." Leo Buscaglia

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way." Vincent Van Gogh

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche

The early bird gets the worm.

"Is it not enough to see that a garden is beautiful, without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
- Ford Prefect

"Rudeness is an epidemic."--Gaspard Ulliel as young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising

"Great liars are also great magicians. " Adolf Hitler

"Words build bridges into unexplored regions." Adolf Hitler

"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it." Al Capone

"I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in." Charles Manson

"If you're going to do something, do it well." Charles Manson



"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can." Princess Diana


"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." Princess Diana

"Only do what your heart tells you. " Princess Diana

"I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people. "
Prince William

"I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am."
Prince William

"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. "
Prince William

"People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people. "
Prince William

"Don't dream it, be it. "
Tim Curry

"I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision."
Alan Rickman

"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid." (the same is true for me) Patrick Stewart

and dozens of quotes by those that are considered insane.

"I, the mighty Overlord Zetta, do not fear corn, kettle or otherwise!"

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."

favorite quotes:

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you got it made."
- Groucho Marx

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." -Eleanor
Roosevelt, diplomat, author, and lecturer (1884-1962)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
-Dennis Wholey

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. " - Bertrand Russell

"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience." -Doug Larson

favorite saying paired with a movie moment retort:

"a rolling stone gathers no moss" - "that makes about as much sense as 'don't wash your dirty underwear in public'" - [jack nicholson/r.p. mcmurphy in "one flew over the cuckoo's nest"]

and:

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow. - Tibetan proverb

favorite phrase [note: must be uttered with a musical inflection]:
QUITTIN' TIME!