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Daktari · Joined: 08 Mar 2010 Posts: 57

The gradual dawning of legibility slowly reveals his complete inability to spell.

Unknown teacher

SidGlickman · Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Silicon Valley, USA

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

- Mark Twain

SidGlickman · Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Silicon Valley, USA

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

- Thomas Jefferson

SidGlickman · Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Silicon Valley, USA

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

- George Washington

EFLeducator · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:55 am Post subject:

"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
George W. Bush, September 20, 2001

"We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail."
George W. Bush, Speech after 9/11 attacks

"America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused � preferring greatness to power and justice to glory." George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

voltaire · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:20 am Post subject:

If guns is the topic...

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. - Mao Zedong

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -Al Capone

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy. - John Dillinger

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

"What is hateful to thee, do not unto thy neighbor."

The Babylonian Talmud

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:22 am Post subject:

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Noam Chomsky

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:35 am Post subject:

A language is a dialect that has an army and navy.

Max Weinriech

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:37 am Post subject:

Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language � natural communication � in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding.

Stephen Krashen

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:38 am Post subject:

At any point in language teaching history there are always items of faith which nobody questions. The belief in a focus on meaning is the dogma of our time.

Guy Cook

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:39 am Post subject:

One free lunch in the world is to learn another language in early childhood.

Steven Pinker

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."

Glenn Gould

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

"That nut's a genius."

Conductor George Szell (referring to Gould)

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:07 am Post subject:

Gould! Was a genius. Much loved in Moscow too.