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butterbobbinAn educated man on the streets with his hands in his pockets is not one whit more benefit to society than an ignorant man on the streets with his hands in his pockets. - Booker T Washington, 1898
The mere pushing of knowledge into the heads of a people without providing a medium through the hands for its use is not always wise. - Booker T Washington, 1898
Our vision is the same, except that yours is fresh, whereas mine is tinged with vague imprecise memories of the long road I've travelled. It's quite logical, when you come to think of it. After all dawn and twilight tint the sky with much the same colour - one is a greeting, the other a valediction. - Peter Ustinov, Photo Finish, 1962
There is no question in my mind that we are called to build Utopia, but if we think we can do it solely by our design, we are sadly mistaken. We can do it only in cooperation with God. - M Scott Peck, A World Waiting to Be Born, 1993
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant. - Saying courtesy of Mr McKenzie, 1990s
There is no better way to test an act than to ask yourself the questions, "What would my mother or father think of this? Would he or she approve of this, or should I be ashamed to let them know that I have been guilty of such a performance?" Ask yourselves such questions day by day. I think you can get a great deal of wisdom out of such questions. - Booker T Washington, 1898
The whole [Western] civilisation is hag-ridden by the ideal of efficiency,which means that it exhausts itself in doing the wrong things in the right way. It is too busy thinking to have time to stop and think; too busy doing to wonder whether it wants what it does. - C E M Joad, the Book of Joad, 1939
"I'm going to give up these expensive apartments - give them up to-morrow, when our week is up.AndI'mgoing to stop squandering money for things I don't want. I'm going to stop accepting invitations,and meeting people I don't like and don't want to know.... I'm going to find some decent and simple place to live in." - Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, 1908
Stop worrying. The bridges you cross before you come to them are almost always over rivers that aren't there. - unknown
The mere pushing of knowledge into the heads of a people without providing a medium through the hands for its use is not always wise. - Booker T Washington, 1898
Our vision is the same, except that yours is fresh, whereas mine is tinged with vague imprecise memories of the long road I've travelled. It's quite logical, when you come to think of it. After all dawn and twilight tint the sky with much the same colour - one is a greeting, the other a valediction. - Peter Ustinov, Photo Finish, 1962
There is no question in my mind that we are called to build Utopia, but if we think we can do it solely by our design, we are sadly mistaken. We can do it only in cooperation with God. - M Scott Peck, A World Waiting to Be Born, 1993
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant. - Saying courtesy of Mr McKenzie, 1990s
There is no better way to test an act than to ask yourself the questions, "What would my mother or father think of this? Would he or she approve of this, or should I be ashamed to let them know that I have been guilty of such a performance?" Ask yourselves such questions day by day. I think you can get a great deal of wisdom out of such questions. - Booker T Washington, 1898
The whole [Western] civilisation is hag-ridden by the ideal of efficiency,which means that it exhausts itself in doing the wrong things in the right way. It is too busy thinking to have time to stop and think; too busy doing to wonder whether it wants what it does. - C E M Joad, the Book of Joad, 1939
"I'm going to give up these expensive apartments - give them up to-morrow, when our week is up.AndI'mgoing to stop squandering money for things I don't want. I'm going to stop accepting invitations,and meeting people I don't like and don't want to know.... I'm going to find some decent and simple place to live in." - Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, 1908
Stop worrying. The bridges you cross before you come to them are almost always over rivers that aren't there. - unknown