Great Quotes:

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old Age should burn and rave at close of day.

Dylan Thomas

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Martin Niemoeller (Protestant pastor and Nazi victim, in response to a student's question, "How could it happen?")

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

-- Teddy Roosevelt, 1918

Protect your children from hate speech. Use parental controls to block CBN.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies, they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski
The Ascent of Man (1975)

All truth passes through 3 stages

it is ridiculed.
it is violently opposed.
it is accepted as being self-evident

-- Schopenhauer

There has been too much thou-shalt-notting going on all through all the centuries of man and all of this thou-shalt-notting has got to stop. The twelfth commandment is: 'Thou shalt not -- shalt not.' I shalt not -- that's all right -- but no more of this 'Thou shalt not.

Thou shalt not -- thou shalt not.

W. O. Mitchell
How I Spent My Summer Holidays (1981)

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply; by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin

Beware of the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you'll suck forever.

Anonymous

The small number who write classical music find few friends in today's music schools, where sometimes butterflies enter and caterpillars emerge.

Marilyn Vos Savant on why nobody writes great music today.
"Ask Marilyn" January 2, 2000

The mind follows the flow of the flux like a cat; one step ahead, always turning back to see if you're still coming, always under foot.

The profound difference between men and women can be seen in the things they pray for most frequently: Men pray for sex, women pray for parking places.

If shoulds and oughts
were dids and did nots
what a dreadful world this would be

The 20th Century in Retrospect:

We were pregnant,
we writhed in labor,
We gave birth, as it were,
only to wind.

We could not accomplish
deliverance
for the earth

ISA 26:18

HOW TO TEACH

Know your stuff.
Know who you're stuffin'.
Stuff 'em.

John Ciardi once said, "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."

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Steve Falkenberg

steve.falkenberg@eku.edu