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“Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

“Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

“Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“To all of the songs like windows, open just enough for us to make our escape, and to all of the songs like windows, closed and clear enough in a dim light to see our own reflection and be reminded of who we are.”
― Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

“Dawn rose, like a jerk.”
― Zach Weinersmith, Bea Wolf

“There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”
― H. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy

“It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.”
― Chuck Klosterman

“You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer”
― L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz

“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.”
― George Washington Carver

“Even the most avid technocrat must occasionally escape from virtual space, and what better place to do it than the kitchen, with all its dangerous knives and delicious aromas?”
― Ruth Reichl, The Best American Food Writing 2018: An Anthology of Wondrous Essays on How Food Redesigns Our World

“Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.”
― Kenneth A. Bruffee, Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel

“Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way?”
― José Antonio Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

“In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.”
― Rose Prince

“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“This is a problem, how can we have a body of knowledge and understanding and resist the temptation to misread the interest of the people because we're looking for an opportunity to unload this great load of gold that we have stored up?”
― Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

“The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.”
― Jose A. Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

“Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.”
― Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.”
― Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching : Theory, Research, and Practice

“Culpable obtuseness. He should know better. That's one reason why we don't use the a-word, for example, of little children. They can merit the s-word, because there's a malignity that's innate in little kids sometimes, but you can't merit the a-word until you're old enough so that you ought to know better.”
― Geoffrey Nunberg

“Transfer must be the aim of all teaching in school - it is not an option - because when we teach, we can address only a relatively small sample of the entire subject matter. All teachers have said to themselves after a lesson "Oh, if only we had more time! This is just a drop in the bucket!" We can never have enough time. Transfer is our greatest and most difficult mission because we need to put students in a position to learn far more, on their own, than they can ever learn from us.”
― Jay McTighe

“English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.”
― H. Beam Piper, Fuzzy Sapiens

“Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider connection weakens the sense of community. This happens in scholarly life when such essential functions as professional service or teaching do not get discussed openly or often enough.”
― Charles E. Glassick, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate

“Life has always been an open-book exam”
― Jose A. Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

“It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.”
― Rose Prince

“Most faculty spend a lot of time thinking about content and what to cover, but content delivery is not the core strength of a university, just as it is not for newspapers. The core strength of a university is integration.”
― José Antonio Bowen

“When we asked college students how they adapted to the tidal wave of new technology, one explained, "It's only technology if it happened after you were born.”
― Arthur Levine, Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student